Re: What happened to dot pro... (BTW)

2004-02-01 Thread Bradley Dunn
John R Levine wrote: A PGP or S/MIME signature assures you that the mail definitely came from the address it purports to come from, but it doesn't tell you whether that person is who you think it is. That's where limited access domains can help. No actually a PGP signature assures you that a parti

Re: Web hijacking by router - a new method of advertisement by Belkin

2003-11-08 Thread Bradley Dunn
Peter Galbavy wrote: I hope that the US - the largest single market for technology products I assume - has a similar bunch of useful [consumer] law. I don't. Who needs a bunch of laws (and accompanying bureaucrats and lawyers) when market pressure dealt with the issue quickly and forcefully. Brad

Re: Extreme BlackDiamond

2003-10-13 Thread Bradley Dunn
Steve Francis wrote: BGP Scanner taking up close to 100% of CPU on a box periodically. GSR doesn't seem to do it, but a buncha other cisco boxes do. Its more irritating than anything else, especially when customers complain that when they traceroute they see ~200ms latency to the router... Doe

Re: i'd like to know your opinions on the com/net wildcard issue

2003-10-13 Thread Bradley Dunn
Christopher X. Candreva wrote: I've seen this in the press repeatedly and it drives me almost as nuts as having to call DSL access hardware a modem. What's wrong with calling it a modem? It MOdulates and DEModulates between a digital bitstream and an analog signal. Bradley

Re: Latency generator?

2003-06-25 Thread Bradley Dunn
Temkin, David wrote: Does anyone know of any free, cheap, or potentially rentable latency generators? Ideally I'd like something that just sits between two ethernet devices to induce layer 2/3 latency in traffic, but am open to any options... NIST Net: http://snad.ncsl.nist.gov/itg/nistnet/ Br

Re: Unified table of AS names?

2003-06-03 Thread Bradley Dunn
Mike Leber wrote: I'm looking for a unified table of AS names or a tool that could be used to generate such a table. The only public "one stop shop" for AS names that I know of is: http://www.cidr-report.org/autnums.html Bradley

Re: OT: Increasing Cell Phone Signal inside a NOC?

2003-03-11 Thread Bradley Dunn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure a lot of people have the same problem as we are having... Our NOC and Server Equipment is located in "No Cell Phone signal" zone of our building (It's amazing what metal walls, Server Racks and HVAC Systems will do to Cellphone Signals). I was wondering if anyo

Re: Building Cited for Housing Fuel Tanks Catches Fire [NYT]

2003-03-10 Thread Bradley Dunn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case, this problem should be solved by the city government in a large city. It is a fact that large cities are large telecomm hubs. It is a fact that large telecomm hubs need guaranteed power supplies. It is a fact that the individual players in telecomm want to b

Re: scripts to map IP to AS?

2003-02-20 Thread Bradley Dunn
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, William Allen Simpson wrote: > Anybody have a pointer to scripts to map IP to AS? Grab a routing table snapshot from the routeviews archive and run it through parse_bgp_dump from CAIDA's CoralReef package. Then use CAIDA::ASFinder or Net::Patricia to do the lookups. Brad

Re: IPv4 country of origin

2002-10-03 Thread Bradley Dunn
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Gary E. Miller wrote: > I would be REALLY interested to know how you measure mileage with IP. Latency triangulation. Bradley

Re: selective prepends...one more time

2002-09-30 Thread Bradley Dunn
On Mon, 30 Sep 2002, Leo Bicknell wrote: > In general what this means is rather than having a couple of standard > route-map's/route-policies that get configured once and applied to > all peers you end up with a per-peer specific configuration. It > would seem to me that the opportunity for mis

Re: Security Practices question

2002-09-22 Thread Bradley Dunn
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, John M. Brown wrote: > What is your learned opinion of having host accounts > (unix machines) with UID/GID of 0:0 > > otherwords > > > jmbrown_r:password:0:0:John M. Brown:/export/home/jmbrown:/bin/mysh > > > The argument is that way you don't hav to give out the root

Re: routing table size

2002-07-27 Thread Bradley Dunn
On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Ralph Doncaster wrote: > If the size of the global routing table is really an important issue, why > not start filtering /24 announcements? By all means, go ahead. You don't need anyone's permission. Report back with your results. > I have more of a legal right to use my

Re: Multi-collector Netflow/etc

2002-07-18 Thread Bradley Dunn
> data and this was then fed to the main processing server. However, in > general I think it's pretty hard to make Netflow data scale...ideally you > would be able to pick which fields you wanted exported... The NetFlow v9 format looks like it would support this kind of thing. Whether cisco will

Re: msfc v msfc2

2002-07-17 Thread Bradley Dunn
> Sorry for being a bit ot:). In short whats the difference between the Cisco > msfc2 and msfc? I know the msfc2 is newer but what makes it better? A url > compairing the two would be fine also. cisco-nsp is probably be a better place to ask, but the end of sale announcement for the MSFC give

Re: Multi-collector Netflow/etc

2002-07-17 Thread Bradley Dunn
> Apparently there are a number of packet reflectors (usually > running on a Unix machine) that work in theory, how do these > work in actual practice, what kind of performance and > reliability to they have, and which work well for traffic > collection? I have had good results with samplicator:

Re: PGP: learn it, use it, love it

2002-07-15 Thread Bradley Dunn
Scott Francis wrote: > There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good > reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count. Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a good thing. Do you get every physical document you write notarized? If you are sued and email is submitted

Re: Buffett bailout of WorldCom raises questions of influence

2002-07-12 Thread Bradley Dunn
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bradley Dunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Scott Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 10:58 AM Subject: Re: Buffett bailout of WorldCom raises questions o

Re: Buffett bailout of WorldCom raises questions of influence

2002-07-12 Thread Bradley Dunn
> http://www.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney.htm Where does it talk about a "Buffett bailout out WorldCom"? Buffett invested $100 million in Level 3 (the rest of the $500 million came from others). Hardly a bailout, and nothing to do with WorldCom. What am I missing? "Questions of influence"?

Re: Economics of Support Costs (was: Cisco quality)

2002-05-22 Thread Bradley Dunn
> Indulge me in an analogy: Let's say I own a bakery. Some punk throws a > rock through my window. Well, now I have to either pay someone to fix > Larry Diffey - Armchair Economist With apologies to Bastiat and Hazlitt? :) Bradley

Re: route statistics

2002-05-20 Thread Bradley Dunn
> I've been told getting the MRT sources to build is rather difficult. I > may give it a shot anyway... Yeah I haven't been able to build directly from the MRT source recently. On FreeBSD building from the ports tree works fine. On Linux SuSE has an RPM at ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/7.3/s

Re: route statistics

2002-05-19 Thread Bradley Dunn
> I'm trying to collect statistics on how many routes match certain > patterns. So far I've been using zebra, set term len 0, and then sh ip > bgp regexp, and wait for the total prefixes count at the end of the list. > I figure there must be a better way than this, but so far haven't found > one

Re: DDOS attacks and Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Bradley Dunn
> A NAT'd cell phone > wont, cant ever, respond to an unsolicited connection request. A NAT is not a firewall. A firewall is not a NAT. Some vendors bundle firewall functionality with NAT functionality, just as some vendors bundle SNA with IP. Please stop perpetuating the myth that a NAT is a