[offtopic] Topicality debate [my 2 bits]

2006-09-23 Thread John Underhill
I hadn't checked this list for a week or so, and today was met with this deluge of posts regarding topicality [again], in response, might I offer a couple of stray thoughts? The debate and subsequent infighting has become far more disruptive now, then the occasional offtopic post. It is a

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-11 Thread John Underhill
It seems to me, that the only *real* solution is for these manufacturers to implement a [responsible] strategy of automatic firmware upgrades, as it pertains to these (simple eu type) devices. How difficult would it be to have the router test a server periodically, (say once a month), and in the

Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism

2006-04-11 Thread John Underhill
. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Underhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 12:24 PM Subject: Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 10:28:32 -0400, John Underhill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Time to check the rate limits on your mail servers

2005-02-03 Thread John Underhill
Creating an invincible mail client, still only addresses the symptom, and not the disease. I would contend that any attempts made to harden a mail client, will, (and have always been..), be countered with a new exploit, a new method of exploiting the system. The only way to really control spam,

Re: (newbie) BGP For Dummies?

2004-12-11 Thread John Underhill
This is a bit dated, but a good place to start.. BGP4 Case Studies - Sam Halabi http://www.cs.fsu.edu/courses/netdesign/halabi/halabi-bgp4-case-studies-tutorial.pdf#search='halabi%20bgp%20cisco' For a forum try: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-routing/ Internet.com has a number of forums in

Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
I have been looking around, but haven't found it yet.. Is there a text list of who owns what netblock worldwide? ISP/Location/Contact. I am not looking for anything searchable, but rather, a large, up to date list that I can import to a database.. Thanks John

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
Perhaps I should have made my inquiry/intentions a little more specific. Just in the thinking out loud stage here, but.. I would like to put an interactive help system together. One where, the user would have the option to forward some types of complaints directly to the hosting provider/ISP

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
this to create more responsive filtering policies.. - Original Message - From: Gary E. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Underhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 5:15 PM Subject: Re: Big List of network owners? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash

Re: Big List of network owners?

2004-10-28 Thread John Underhill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Underhill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 6:02 PM Subject: Re: Big List of network owners? Please describe exactly what you want to do with the data. If its specific action based on some network name or per their ASN, I can

Re: WashingtonPost computer security stories

2004-08-15 Thread John Underhill
Maybe you should browse through the SANS archives, plenty of bind, sendmail, apache, nfs, etc. exploits.. http://www.sans.org/top20/ The problem with *nix, is more with misconfiguration then coding flaws, but this should not be underestimated. Given the current tendency towards global

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread John Underhill
MS do not publish full system specs, and they use undocumented features themself. Ok, say MS puplished their code tomorow, what do you think would happen? All the crackers and virus writers of the world would join hands and sing 'joy to the world' and forgive MS for their tresspasses? I

Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious

2004-07-14 Thread John Underhill
] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 3:31 PM Subject: Re: Spyware becomes increasingly malicious Sorry, it was a _technical_ question - is MAC OS known as having pests and ad-ware in the comparable numbers (if any)? * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Underhill) [Wed 14 Jul 2004, 19:45