Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
What we did was to isolate our forwarding traffic out through a separate set of IPs. And then told Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL etc about the IPs. They were very glad to tag these as such in their filters This was over three years ago, and admittedly, our email traffic is rather higher (by orders of mag

Re: L3VPN VPNv4 NLRI - Route Reflector Scaling

2008-04-03 Thread Mark Tinka
On Wednesday 02 April 2008, David Freedman wrote: > We have dedicated VPNv4 route reflectors, they work well > for us. An inevitable end as the number of routes grows. That said, RFC 4684 would appear to be the ultimate solution, although vendor support is not rife at the moment. Cheers, Mar

Re: rack power question

2008-04-03 Thread Robert Boyle
At 03:50 PM 4/3/2008, Derek J. Balling wrote: So your theoretical maximum draw is NOT "1/2 the total"... in a nicely populated chassis it will draw more than 1/2 the total and complain the whole time about it. That should probably have read in a well designed and fully populated chassis... I

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Raymond L. Corbin
yeah, We do hosting for about 300,000 users in our shared environment. They have forwarders setup or aliases that send to their external addresses. This forwards their spam as well. We purchased quite a few barracuda servers and became their case study for outbound units. They actually do a re

Re: rack power question

2008-04-03 Thread Derek J. Balling
Sorry to resurrect a slightly old thread, but I did want to touch on something I noticed while catching up. On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Michael Brown wrote: Naturally, that's redundant, so theoretical maximum usage per rack is half that, 23200W. Plus, the blades available today don't draw e

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread chuck goolsbee
As another Procurve user (also 3500's)...I'd point out that Procurve has a lifetime warranty on their gear. ...and the stuff seems to last forever too. We still have quite a few 4000M-series 80-port switches in production, as well as newer models. They are bulletproof... just run and run and

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread Jeff McAdams
Tim Durack wrote: > I guess we've had good experience with ProCurve, so have stuck with them. > I also like the fact that it is the same code train for the 5400 > chassis and 3500 fixed-format. Less work for me when it comes to the > test-upgrade cycle. We also make heavy use of sFlow monitoring >

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread Tim Durack
I guess we've had good experience with ProCurve, so have stuck with them. I also like the fact that it is the same code train for the 5400 chassis and 3500 fixed-format. Less work for me when it comes to the test-upgrade cycle. We also make heavy use of sFlow monitoring (although I believe Foundry

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Fox, Thomas
> Do you rewrite/forward mail? .. we're a .edu, and allow our students to > forward to hotmail/yahoo/whatever .. so when a phishing/malware sweep > hits campus, about 60% is reflected back onto the Internet (sometimes > our Anticrap gateway catches it, sometimes not). Because of the way > addr

Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Michael Holstein
We have identified that messages from your IP (209.255.20.17) are being blocked based on the recommendations of the Symantec Brightmail as traffic/e-mail originating from your IP matched characteristics of recent spam attacks from compromised, or 'zombie' infected, machines. Do you rewr

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread david raistrick
On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Tim Durack wrote: The HP 3500 is a fixed format 24/48 port 10/100/1000 with 4 dual-personality SFP ports. You can slap a 10Gig expansion module in the back. Around $3k/$6k for the 24/48 port We only run basic L2 stuff, although the unit supports L3. Foundry FLS624/648 is

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread Tim Durack
The HP ProCurve 3500/5400 range is working nicely for us. The 3500 is a fixed format 24/48 port 10/100/1000 with 4 dual-personality SFP ports. You can slap a 10Gig expansion module in the back. Around $3k/$6k for the 24/48 port We prefer the 5406 chassis, as it is more flexible. Does consume mor

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Fox, Thomas
I'm suggesting that MSN/Hotmail and the others are using a system or systems that aren't properly updated, not that they are necessarily querying ORDB directly. There are no issues with my outbound mailserver IP that shows up in any monitoring system or blacklist of which I'm aware. We had no is

Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Al Iverson
On 4/3/08, Fox, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the last 10 days or so, ever since ORDB re-activated itself and > blacklisted everything, we have had deliverability problems to: > > MSN > Hotmail > Bellsouth > AT&T (the same as Bellsouth I think) > Yahoo > Detroit Edison > > In t

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Fox, Thomas
We are having trouble sending to them. MSN Said: We have identified that messages from your IP (209.255.20.17) are being blocked based on the recommendations of the Symantec Brightmail as traffic/e-mail originating from your IP matched characteristics of recent spam attacks from compromised, or

Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
No. Thats not because of ordb. Because you see, if hotmail or these other providers were using ORDB (they sure as hell arent) none of the subscribers to those srevices would be getting ANY email at all. There's some other issue with your IP. And it is an issue that multiple providers are seein

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Raymond L. Corbin
Hey, Are you having trouble emailing them, or them to you. I think this thread is about emails coming from hotmail never reaching the destinations. What type of problems are you having with these companies? /r From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] O

RE: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Fox, Thomas
In the last 10 days or so, ever since ORDB re-activated itself and blacklisted everything, we have had deliverability problems to: MSN Hotmail Bellsouth AT&T (the same as Bellsouth I think) Yahoo Detroit Edison In the case of MSN and Hotmail, they told us they were using Symantec’s Brightmail

Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Jason J. W. Williams
Hi Suresh, We are the outsourced provider. :-) -J - Original Message - From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jason J. W. Williams Cc: nanog@merit.edu Sent: Thu Apr 03 03:13:47 2008 Subject: Re: Hotmail NOC Contact On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Jason J. W. Williams <[EM

Re: fiber switch for gig

2008-04-03 Thread Kevin Blackham
We run nortel 5530. They are not exactly "cheap" by my standards for 24 GE (10k list), but they do have 2x10G. Also they don't play nice with rstp to cisco, and I still can't figure out how to get it to show me stp port status. Both vendors in the tree think they're root. CLI is tolerable, but if

Re: Contact at mfa.gov.cn?

2008-04-03 Thread Christina Klam
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt & Lou, I have sent an updated email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] And, I will have a co-worker who speaks Chinese call them today. Thank you for your help, Christina Matt F wrote: | Lou, | | I was not able to ping 219.238.192.6 from 192.* space, but w

Re: Hotmail NOC Contact

2008-04-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Jason J. W. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have a good contact number for the Hotmail NOC? We've got > e-mails from Hotmail to some of our customers being returned the Hotmail > sender with a 554 error message fairly regularly. Our logs aren't sh