RE: Sabotage cuts power to 18 million people

2003-02-28 Thread Al Rowland
. Nice to have a 'local' backup. The PocketPC is also a cell/GPRS device. Yes, I know, but if it's bad enough to effect the cell system, the power company is likely already on the job. ;0 Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Symantec detected Slammer worm hours before

2003-02-13 Thread Al Rowland
Not to mention that most firewalls and IDSs that DeepSight relies on didn't flag on 1434 before Slammer. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of William Warren Sent: Thursday

RE: Remote email access

2003-02-04 Thread Al Rowland
, there are some client solutions. broadly supported is a different matter. Only convenient kludge that is (mostly) provider independent is a webmail service, a completely different can of worms/flame war. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- [Snip

RE: Remote email access

2003-02-04 Thread Al Rowland
. This will always be tragedy-of-the-commons; the very things that make service attractive for Joe PayingCustomer also make it easy for Joe Spammer/Hax0r. Open-Secure, choose your business plan carefully. Good Luck. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message

RE: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Leo Bicknell Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 8:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Banc of America Article FWIW: http

RE: Dropouts since Saturday 1/25/03 only affecting web traffic?

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Dropouts since Saturday 1/25/03 only affecting web traffic? According

OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
The original NSI SI, National-Security-Internet-(Survivable-Infrastructure), model was replaced years ago by the BBC, Best-Business-Case model, puns intended. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
this specifically works without looking at the BoA specific ATM code but I'd be willing to bet the code errs on the side of customer convenience over absolute security. See most software as examples. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: Charles Sprickman

RE: Dropouts since Saturday 1/25/03 only affecting web traffic?

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
I've also seen a few 25/110/111 requests in my logs but it didn't seem higher than 'normal.' Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jim Popovitch Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003

OT: Banc of America Article

2003-01-29 Thread Al Rowland
outside forces affect change in the current business model. Just my 2¢. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 9:47 AM To: Al Rowland

RE: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

2003-01-22 Thread Al Rowland
-to-the-curb is the norm we'll be able to 'Ride the Light' Until then, your mileage may vary. You might also see some change in settlement plans and consumer pricing about that same time. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

OT: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

2003-01-22 Thread Al Rowland
. No monthly fee. I do pay for the DirecTV feed, but that's a separate flame war. Of course, you could just as easily be right. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Chris Parker Sent

RE: fast ethernet limits

2003-01-10 Thread Al Rowland
And you are using shielded cable, correct? Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Bruce Robertson Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 12:19 PM To: Steve Rude Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED

MSN IM Outage last week.

2003-01-09 Thread Al Rowland
://update.internetweek.com/cgi-bin4/flo?y=eKGj0BfFir0V30BpZb0Ad It's the interface between the chair and the keyboard... Best regards, __ Al Rowland

RE: AOL Cogent

2003-01-02 Thread Al Rowland
. No need to upgrade to use more bandwidth. :) So let's change your analogy to the day after you upgraded from dialup to broadband... Just my 2¢. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mike

RE: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet(fwd) err, make that (fud)

2002-12-24 Thread Al Rowland
on customers but sure made it interesting for the staff. Beavis and Butthead are much more likely to cause mayhem than Osama or Mohamed. 9-11 proved that human engineering is much more effective than any technology. Just my 2¢ worth. Best regards, __ Al Rowland

RE: Networking in Africa...

2002-12-02 Thread Al Rowland
The FBI unit working these cases will be happy to confirm most do originate in Africa even if the money ultimately ends up elsewhere. http://www.fbi.gov/majcases/fraud/fraudschemes.htm#nigerian Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

OT: WAS: Even the New York Times withholds the address

2002-11-19 Thread Al Rowland
Actually, there are different grades of jet fuel as well as diesel. JP4 is 'common' but JP3 also has the characteristic of extinguishing fires and requires an accelerant to ignite. It was used in SR-71s among others. Best regards, __ Al Rowland -Original Message

RE: WP: Attack On Internet Called Largest Ever

2002-10-22 Thread Al Rowland
But the press learned long ago the more isolated an incident is to the average consumer, the more horrific they can make it sound without scaring anyone personally. Appealing to the glad that wasn't me! emotion that also causes slowdowns around every wreck on the road and live coverage of police

RE: what's that smell?

2002-10-08 Thread Al Rowland
Jason, There're multiple answers depending on what you mean by DNS server one uses. Whois on the domain will list the DNS servers of record. Some domains also spread load over RNS servers so a dig, per a previous answer, will give more specific announced servers currently in the zone files.

RatHole: Wireless insecurity at NANOG meetings

2002-09-23 Thread Al Rowland
That [WEB] will give people a false sense of security. IMHO those 'people' are a group that is a subset of folk that will do 'unwise' things no matter what level of scurity is in place. Move along, nothing to see here... Internet != secure, period. Best regards, _ Alan

RE: download.microsoft.com problem

2002-09-19 Thread Al Rowland
Don't know the history of this input but MS is in the process of an auto security update for ALL XP machines worldwide. Might have something to do with this behavior. On a side note, it kills ALL E-mail attachments (MS files et al) and significant web content. Security vulnerability in XP. As I

RE: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

2002-09-11 Thread Al Rowland
I believe the question was use of the access to spam, not just that the majority of users leave their equipment (all, not just the wireless part) in the original, out-of-the-box configuration. Remember those comments on the flahsing 12:00 on most VCRs? BTW, everyone out there with a random

RE: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

2002-09-11 Thread Al Rowland
The cost of enabling/labeling may be only a 'few cents more' but the cost of support when Joe Sixpack forgets his key/loses the label is another story altoghether. There's a reason most equipment, not just wireless, is deliverd in 'chimp simple' configuration... Best regards,

RE: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs

2002-09-11 Thread Al Rowland
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 10:16 AM To: Al Rowland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Drive-by spam hits wireless LANs This is what console ports / direct cable connects to a mgmt port (usb or whatnot) are useful for. As well as an overall 'clear config' button

OT: National Moment of Silence

2002-09-11 Thread Al Rowland
, September 11, 2002 11:39 AM To: Al Rowland Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: National Moment of Silence On Mon, 9 Sep 2002, Al Rowland wrote: I would think there might be a few folk streaming live feeds during this period. Might even result in a higher traffic load leading up to and through

RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Al Rowland
Okay, I'm going to break my promise, Can anyone document more than one isolated instance, if that, of spammers using North American Cyber Cafes? (This is NANOG) If so, wouldn't appropriate AUP with appropriate fines to the CC the user used for access be a more appropriate sniper rifle shot

RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Al Rowland
Steganography looked great in that hollywood movie Along Came a Spider with Morgan Freeman (or at least the 'screen friendly' version they portrayed) but a recent study of millions of graphics across USENET found zero steganographic images. Great theory, no examples found in the wild, other than

RE: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-09 Thread Al Rowland
Kinda breaks broadband streaming audio/video in a Java/other web applet though...among other things. Best regards, _ Alan Rowland -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Iljitsch van Beijnum Sent: Monday, September 09,

RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

2002-09-06 Thread Al Rowland
Okay, If we're going to go off the deep end here, how about the effect of a small yield air burst over $importantplace? Not designed to maximize casualties/damage but rather EMP? A large number of senior military officials got that 'deer-in-the-headlights' look a few decades back when a

RE: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

2002-09-05 Thread Al Rowland
To reinforce a dissenting opinion, And your explanation accounts for suicide bombers how? I would think a smoking hole in the ground containing a train or whatever, particularly if lose of life is involved, would be much more appealing to the motivations of most terrorists than a couple of

RE: .mil domain root only hosted by one server??

2002-08-21 Thread Al Rowland
Perhaps the military has more interest in controlling access than in making sure John Q. Public is able to reach their sites? There's also little commercial interest in making sure they're available. I'm willing to bet the important stuff doesn't rely on DNS anyway. ;) Just my 2¢ Best

RE: IETF SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org

2002-08-21 Thread Al Rowland
Then the question becomes, Is running your own mail server worth some registration cost? Very similar to the I want my own special part of the Internet (web server). Okay, pay your $70 for two years (or whatever). BTW, just curious, who announces your MX records? Best regards,

RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-14 Thread Al Rowland
fold back systems like Bose noise cancelling headsets depend on the microphones being adjacent to each other. The further apart they are the more difficult it becomes to sync the noise. A digital delay helps but at some point of source divergence even it won't help. Of course these measures