Re: what the heck do i do now?

2007-02-04 Thread Andrew - Supernews
? -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: AS41961 not seen in many networks

2007-01-04 Thread Andrew - Supernews
announcements are blocked Sebastian probably due to bogon lists. I don't think this is anything to do with bogons. I see those routes via Cogent and _only_ via Cogent - none of our other transit providers have them at all. I suspect a problem with your announcements themselves. -- Andrew, Supernews http

Re: NNTP feed.

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew - Supernews
bandwidth for text is so small (couple of hundred kbits) and the storage requirements so modest (one 36GB spool disk will hold a month's traffic). -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com -- individual and corporate NNTP services

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

2006-06-14 Thread Andrew - Supernews
the ingress direction (customer equipment - your network) does not help (until _everyone_ does it), since the spammer only needs to _receive_ traffic with the hijacked IP, not send it (that can be done from the other corner of the spammer's triangle route). -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: NANOG36-NOTES 2006.02.13 talk 3 NTT labs AAAA query explosion worries

2006-02-13 Thread Andrew - Supernews
the fact that they are generating unnecessary queries to other people's DNS servers? -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Router upgrade for small colo provider

2006-01-24 Thread Andrew - Supernews
trying to log traffic in ACLs) that result in your main traffic flows being punted to the MSFC. There are lots of other advantages besides the ones you mentioned, though. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity

2005-12-11 Thread Andrew - Supernews
its expected workload just to accomodate all the bozos who accept-and-bounce, uncontrolled backscatter, sender verification, C/R, and all the other cost-shifting methods out there. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity

2005-12-10 Thread Andrew - Supernews
over quota and _stay_ that way should be set to reject traffic at SMTP time, so that they don't become continuous sources of backscatter). -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: IP Prefixes are allocated ..

2005-11-27 Thread Andrew - Supernews
way for a third party to answer the question should AS N be announcing prefix X. The history of netblock thefts shows that even network providers have a hard time answering the question should my customer C be announcing prefix X. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: www.usenetabuse.com?

2005-09-11 Thread Andrew - Supernews
regarding his service, but of course this does not excuse him from the normal responsibility to handle emailed abuse reports. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Very funny: While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies

2005-09-07 Thread Andrew - Supernews
address with no attempt to verify that the person making the request has the right to use that address? -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Andrew - Supernews
209.244.1.179: Operation timed out Doesn't seem to have made much difference yet... -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Catalyst Flow Export wierdness.

2005-06-08 Thread Andrew - Supernews
. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Service providers that NAT their whole network?

2005-04-15 Thread Andrew - Supernews
obvious examples that I know of. I'm sure there are more. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

2005-02-24 Thread Andrew - Supernews
Paul == Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul well, in sbc-dsl-land, port 25 and port 587 are blocked, but Paul port 26 gets through. I have a port-587 relay on my network which is used by some sbc-dsl-land users... they don't appear to be blocked -- Andrew, Supernews http

Re: 16-bit ASN kludge

2004-12-04 Thread Andrew - Supernews
to kludging this Owen instead of just going for it assuming a 32bit world. Was I the only person who noticed when someone (apparently) typoed their router config and leaked a 32-bit ASN into the global table? (This was about 3 months back - I don't recall any mention of it then) -- Andrew

Re: APNIC Privacy of customer assignment records - implementation update

2004-09-24 Thread Andrew - Supernews
adopted policy 2003-5 (requirements for RWhois servers). That policy expressly states that reassignment info must be available to the public and not just to ARIN staff. There is nothing given in the rationale for 2004-6 to explain why 2003-5 should be summarily overruled in this way. -- Andrew

Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?

2004-09-20 Thread Andrew - Supernews
+ megabits at peak times, average maybe 130 megabits over a day - i.e. 1300 - 1350 GB/day on a heavy day). Cut out the multipart binaries upstream and you only need about a megabit. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Real-Time Mitigation of Denial of Service Attacks Now Available With ATT

2004-06-02 Thread Andrew - Supernews
IP addresses. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Open Source BGP Route Optimization?

2004-05-28 Thread Andrew - Supernews
links. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Monitoring dark address space?

2004-04-17 Thread Andrew - Supernews
is in a different netblock). Oh. _Very_ interesting. -- Andrew, Supernews

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-14 Thread Andrew - Supernews
as the same, even though they happen to be using the same underlying protocol, is just going to cause pain. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-13 Thread Andrew - Supernews
as bad as it was at its peak, but it's still very much present. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: the value of reverse address lookups?

2004-03-31 Thread Andrew - Supernews
from there. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: BL of Compromised Hosts?

2004-02-22 Thread Andrew - Supernews
incoming SMTP traffic. The reason for this is that the CBL lists a very large number of dynamic IPs, and has a very long expiration time (months). Accordingly, using it to block general traffic will have a high false-positive rate. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-08 Thread Andrew - Supernews
about HELO names, then it's better to require that the HELO has an A record pointing to the connecting IP, rather than look at PTR. -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com

Re: question on ptr rr

2004-02-08 Thread Andrew - Supernews
Chris == Chris Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Once upon a time, Andrew - Supernews [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: If you're going to get picky about HELO names, then it's better to require that the HELO has an A record pointing to the connecting IP, rather than look at PTR. Chris That isn't

Re: Hijacked IP space.

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew - Supernews
a few minutes at a time, but it's _much_ more likely that the block was never announced and was merely forged into headers of a spam. -- Andrew, Supernews

Re: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew - Supernews
) elby.ch.86400 IN A 213.130.59.30 But the squish.net checker has no limit on referrals - many resolvers, especially older BIND, will just time out chasing the referrals unless it already has them cached. -- Andrew, Supernews

Re: Pitfalls of annoucing /24s

2003-10-15 Thread Andrew - Supernews
0 1 -- Andrew, Supernews

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Andrew - Supernews
CEF is often mentioned in Cisco docs as a workaround for worm traffic problems.) -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services