Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-12 Thread Edward B. DREGER
SMB> Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 23:40:02 -0400 SMB> From: Steven M. Bellovin [ snipping points to which I'm not responding ] SMB> The third is that not all the world is a web site. Indeed, different apps have different requirements. SRV-ish granularity would be useful. Eddy -- Everquick Interne

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
It appears that some of the queries are valid for an older site that existed in the past. That site was a wiki and some of the Giga hits are for internationalized versions of the default help/support pages. This is fine and acceptable behavior by them (IMHO). The fact that they are querying

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 02:50:54PM -0700, Malcolm Staudinger wrote: > Google is your friend? > They're a search engine. robots.txt and forget it. > > Malcolm That's assuming whoever designed their software actually adheres to robots.txt. RFCs recommend people adhere to it, but there are some wh

RE: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread David Schwartz
> :-) Let me add something before everyone on NANOG reminds me that > gigablast is a search engine. I know what they do, but what I don't > understand is why are they searching my systems for URLs that haven't > ever existed there before. It's as though they are doing random word > searches

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Payam Tarverdyan Chychi
That’s exactly it... they are doing site indexing .. if you like google... you'll need to like them! =P I personally wouldn’t worry about anything in the logs unless you start seeing attempts to search and exploit .cgi and executable files... -Payam > > Google is your friend? > They're a searc

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Malcolm Staudinger
Google is your friend? They're a search engine. robots.txt and forget it. Malcolm Jim Popovitch wrote: Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I have access to c

Re: www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
:-) Let me add something before everyone on NANOG reminds me that gigablast is a search engine. I know what they do, but what I don't understand is why are they searching my systems for URLs that haven't ever existed there before. It's as though they are doing random word searches in hop

www.gigablast.com

2006-07-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
Feel free to clue me in on this please... ;-) What is www.gigablast.com? And why is it constantly performing "questionable" queries (mostly http) across every IP that I have access to check. I get a could of thousand hits (mostly questionable non-existing URL requests) from that ip (66.15

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-12 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Keith Mitchell wrote: to violating the principle of net neutrality. Almost always NATed, I've been told that quite a lot of the GPRS equipment can't handle being put on the "internet" without a FW or NAT box in front of it. The background noise from scans etc takes quit

Re: Net Neutrality Legislative Proposal

2006-07-12 Thread Keith Mitchell
Joe Greco wrote: > Don't call it Internet access if it isn't. This has bothered me for > years at hotels where I end up using GPRS because their stupid > "Internet access" system is some sort of web proxy that resets any > connection over two minutes; ISTM that GPRS operators are the first and

Re: Anyone at HopOne Internet?

2006-07-12 Thread Bill Sehmel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone on here works at HopOne's Network Eng. dep/Noc... let me know off list... Thanks, -Payam Hey, Whats up? -Bill -- Bill Sehmel - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 1-206-242-2743 Systems Administrator, HopOne Internet Corp.

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-12 Thread David Ulevitch
On Jul 12, 2006, at 12:30 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jul 2006 20:22, Daniel Golding wrote: I'm at a loss to explain why people are trying so hard to condemn something like this. Experience? People have never created a platform to manage recursive DNS, so it's surprising you

Anyone at HopOne Internet?

2006-07-12 Thread payam
Hey guys, Just wondering if anyone on here works at HopOne's Network Eng. dep/Noc... let me know off list... Thanks, -Payam

Multicast Survey

2006-07-12 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; The Multicast Backbone deployment (Mboned) Working Group of the IETF is conducting a Survey of Multicast operators and providers. The survey is intended to better understand the current state of multicast to better inform the work of the Mboned, and I would like to encourage netwo

RE: Best practices inquiry: filtering 128/1

2006-07-12 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
> > > Do you not prefix-list customers? That'd have solved this, eh? > > The problem is: the route is coming from our upstreams / peers. > that means they also did not filter it out... :( oh bummer ;( that's not us sending that is it? :) Honestly, prefix filtering should apply in both direc

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 12, 2006, at 3:30 AM, Simon Waters wrote: On Tuesday 11 Jul 2006 20:22, Daniel Golding wrote: I'm at a loss to explain why people are trying so hard to condemn something like this. Experience? Please explain to me what experience anyone on this list, or any other, which would ind

RE: Best practices inquiry: filtering 128/1

2006-07-12 Thread WONG, Yuen-Fung
> Do you not prefix-list customers? That'd have solved this, eh? The problem is: the route is coming from our upstreams / peers. that means they also did not filter it out... :( -yf

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-12 Thread Simon Waters
On Tuesday 11 Jul 2006 20:22, Daniel Golding wrote: > > I'm at a loss to explain why people are > trying so hard to condemn something like this. Experience?