RE: cooling door

2008-04-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On March 29, 2008 5:04:01 PM -0500 Frank Coluccio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Dillon is spot on when he states the following (quotation below), although he could have gone another step in suggesting how the distance insensitivity of fiber could be further leveraged: The high spe

AOL/AOL-UK ATDN routing issues?

2008-03-27 Thread Michael Loftis
We're seeing some persistent routing issues with AOL UK customers, it looks like the issue is somewhere inside of ATDN, and it's definitely affecting 204.11.244.0/22 to the point that no AOL UK customers can apparently reach that network at all. If an AOL engineer is on list or someone can c

Re: FCC rules for backup power

2007-11-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 13, 2007 3:07:03 PM -0500 Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Proposed new FCC rules for backup power sources for central offices, cell sites, remote switches, digital loops, etc. For the first time, the FCC is considering specific backup power time requirements of 24 h

Interland dead?

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Loftis
Anyone know what's going on? -- "Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds." -- Samuel Butler

Re: ICANN to remove fee restrictions on .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ?

2006-08-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 28, 2006 9:52:30 PM + John Levine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You're confusing registrars and registries. Every TLD has a single monopoly registry to which all registrars funnel the registrations. Switching registrars wouldn't help. AH! That's what I was missing now it ma

ICANN to remove fee restrictions on .INFO, .ORG, .BIZ?

2006-08-28 Thread Michael Loftis
A bunch of people are calling the sky is falling, the sky is falling. I'm not so sure this is the case. What I'm interested in is if anyone is actually worried about this, or has heard about this, from within this community.

Re: Experiences with Citrix Load Balancing products?

2006-08-10 Thread Michael Loftis
Complete mistakes, errors, and ommissions might be mine. Most people who have had experience with the NetScaler products prior to Citrix seemed to have mostly liked them and been happy with the service and support. I had fewer people respond from this camp though so that might be skewed, the

Experiences with Citrix Load Balancing products?

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Loftis
Anyone used them? Good? Bad? Ugly? I don't know a lot about their products but I know they're new to the market compared to some of their competition. Seems they're buzzword compliant but I could care less about that, I'm really curious how they work in the real world. E-mails off list

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 8, 2006 12:06:42 PM -0400 Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Arjan Hulsebos wrote: We (ISPs) already do have that power, we can disconnect misbehaving subscribers. And in cases like this, we should keep them off the 'net until they've cleaned up their PC

Re: mitigating botnet C&Cs has become useless

2006-08-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 8, 2006 4:03:36 PM +0200 Arjan Hulsebos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:17:27 -0400 (EDT), Sean Donelan typed: Railroads have the railroad police. The Post Office has postal inspectors. Do we want to give ISP security the power to arrest people? We (ISPs)

Re: APC Matrix 5000 question(s)

2006-08-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On July 28, 2006 9:33:59 AM -0400 "Robert E.Seastrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I left for several hours and came back to the house stinking like burning rubber. The new batteries are apparently melting the terminal rubber insulation. I had to throw it bac

Re: Hot weather and power outages continue

2006-07-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On July 24, 2006 2:22:26 AM -0400 Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While its expected for individual customers to go down during power outages, usually because the customer does not have local backup power, it is less common for major web sites and co-location centers to experience d

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

2006-06-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On June 16, 2006 5:24:27 PM -0400 Alex Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But wait, there is more. Just a point of comparison -- Oyster Creek Nuclear Power generation plant, located here on the Jersey Shore, produces 636 megawatts. You'd take one-tenth of that capacity -- in a bulding t

Proxad? (Was: Drone Armies)

2006-05-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On May 16, 2006 7:47:43 AM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <...> Top 20 ASNes by number of active suspect C&Cs. These counts are determined by the number of suspect domains or IPs located within the ASN completed a connection request.

Re: Speakeasy / Above.net

2006-05-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On May 8, 2006 12:57:39 PM -0700 Peter Kranz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is anyone aware of Speakeasy <> Above.net issues that existed in the last 24 hours, doing forensics on some odd traffic flows (HTTP and SSH problems) from customers within Speakeasy in the last 24 hours. I hadn't h

Re: Tools for LARTing large nets of compromised boxen? (on/off list summary)

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Loftis
I received quite a few good responses, I've ended up using incident.pl and wormeter.pl from the list below (found at the same place). Thanks again everyone. IASON was pointed out but seems incomplete http://iason.site.voila.fr/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/iason/ Another member poin

Re: Tools for LARTing large nets of compromised boxen?

2006-04-20 Thread Michael Loftis
--On April 20, 2006 12:51:35 AM -0600 Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any help? TIA! And before you go off on me YES these are the RESPONSIBLE boxen. There might be a CnC behind the drones but I'd have no way of obtaining that without cooperation. The actual a

Tools for LARTing large nets of compromised boxen?

2006-04-19 Thread Michael Loftis
One of our customers is (has been) under concerted attempt at a DDoS attack against their web server off and on for a while. I've lists of IPs, lots of them, many hundreds. I'd like to know if anyone has a tool that will take and match these lists of IPs into abuse contacts and fire off a LA

Re: [c-nsp] Which IOS do *you* use?

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Loftis
*HEADDESK* And I've not gotten my coffee yet. I also subscribe to c-nsp so...yeah. Thanks Robert :P Move along, nothing to see!

Re: [c-nsp] Which IOS do *you* use?

2006-03-21 Thread Michael Loftis
--On March 21, 2006 3:41:47 AM -0500 Robert Boyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We run mostly on 7200s. 12.3 definitely still has some bugs. Esp. with odd things like directly connected routes and networks disappearing from the routing table when using CEF - at least until you globally disabl

Re: a plea re: shim6

2006-03-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On March 1, 2006 12:08:21 PM -0800 Matt Ghali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AFAIK there is no deployed, or even working shim6 code. No there isn't As such, it is not an operational issue by any stretch of the imagination. There are a number of more apropriate mailing lists for discu

Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

2006-02-28 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 28, 2006 5:15:37 PM -0500 John Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Feb 28, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Should be doable with a DNS SRV record like mechanism. Don't worry too much about this one. Where does the assumption that the network operators contr

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 23, 2006 9:09:26 PM +0200 Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't really see how any ISP will terminate an account for just one complaint, after all, it's losing money.. We have seen a few good examples of pretty big ISP's who said here how quarantine works for them. Got

Re: Quarantine your infected users spreading malware

2006-02-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 23, 2006 8:02:31 AM -0600 Jack Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We allowed users back online to run Housecall at trendmicro for free so they could get cleaned up and save some money. However, the resuspend rate was so high, we quickly changed to offline cleanup only. It will r

Re: nanog.org website - 403s?

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 11, 2006 12:21:33 PM -1000 Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am told it is hard disk death. replacement and restoration may take a few hours. good timing, eh? :-) Impeccable, isn't that how it always works? I need to finish packing and get to bed, I've a plane to

Re: nanog.org website - 403s?

2006-02-11 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 11, 2006 10:09:42 PM +1300 Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone else seeing 403's when trying to pull anything other than the index page from www.nanog.org? Not everywhere but almost every single page yes. mailinglist.html still works... someones FTP client or

Re: SPAM Level Status - And why not stop the peering with lame ISPs

2006-02-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 10, 2006 11:29:36 AM -0500 Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: And then a few other well chosen blocklists (not the "block all traffic from a country" variety at all) These days, a lot of smallish ISP's are blocking C

Re: Bringing spouse/significant other to Dallas for NANOG?

2006-02-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 9, 2006 11:49:55 PM -0600 brokaw price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you're considering bringing your sweetie to NANOG and you're worried about how she might not be so keen on 4 days of acronyms and alphabet soup, this link might come in handy! http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/v

Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points

2006-02-08 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 8, 2006 2:13:32 PM -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> Also, just because it looks like something to an "outside observer" does not make it so. Transit vs. peering is a business relationship, and is defined by the parties involved, not the protocol u

Re: NANOG36 PGP Key Signing

2006-02-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 7, 2006 7:29:56 AM -0800 "Majdi S. Abbas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: PGP on a Mac: I assume the procedure is similar to the one for Windows, but cannot confirm this. Hopefully it's easy enough to figure out. Depends on what you're us

Re: flow -> web

2006-02-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 3, 2006 9:10:36 PM -0800 Peter Wohlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, Randy Bush wrote: i have a few routers of various flavors spewing netflow data. currently i use flowtools, and get text reports via email. but they're s

Re: CME-24/BlackWorm email notifications - next TOP unreachables

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On February 1, 2006 3:09:08 AM +0200 Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gadi Evron wrote: Below are the top-7 ASN's that *we* have not been able to reach with our email notifications of CME-24/BlackWorm infected machines: <...> Know of a working contact for these? Please contact me

Re: MPLS vs PTP

2006-01-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 31, 2006 9:56:46 AM + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it seems to me that a correctly configured, directly connected pipe would work as well as mpls, with the benefit of local control of my routers and owning any incompetence. I feel like I'm living in the twilight zone... N

Re: PI space and colocation

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 18, 2006 5:21:35 PM -0500 "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, obviously, the path entry is longer. :) Yeah and if they (somehow) obtain an ASN for this non-multihoming venture then that completely wastes an ASN for no good. And as we all know there aren't

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 17, 2006 7:27:20 AM -0500 "Robert E.Seastrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that Go Daddy has ensured that I'll never do business with them (which is a shame; I liked certain lawsuits that they brought in the past, but if being their customer means subscribing to their thought

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 16, 2006 10:32:58 PM -0800 Jim Popovitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I want to say, from an outsider's perspective, that I whole heartily applaud GoDaddy on the actions they took and the consistent professionalism exhibited by their tech support representative. Despite obvious

Re: AW: Odd policy question.

2006-01-13 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 13, 2006 10:09:51 AM -1000 Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it is a best practice to separate authoritative and recursive servers. why? Cache poisoning (though this is less likely with more modern bind's and other resolvers) and the age old your view is NOT the same a

Re: QWest is having some pretty nice DNS issues right now

2006-01-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On January 9, 2006 5:30:12 PM + "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's interesting to me, atleast, is that this is about the 5th time someone has said similar things in the last 6 months: "DNS is harder than I thought it was" (or something along that line...) So, d

Re: Leap second reminder - Check your NTP

2005-12-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 31, 2005 6:57:45 PM -0600 Kevin Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While I can't say anything broke on our network as a result of the leap second, a good percentage of our gear lost NTP sync or had some kind of NTP problem around midnight UTC. You may want to check your NTP s

RE: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 15, 2005 11:27:29 AM +0700 Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: given an internet where the congestion is at the edges, where there are no alternate paths, i am not sure i understand your suggestion. fergie's message gets my vote for right-on message of the month. this is all

Re: Two Tiered Internet

2005-12-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 13, 2005 8:17:43 PM -0800 Tony Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One might argue that in such a situation, the end user is getting less value than they did previously. End users might then either demand a price break or might vote with their connectivity. *IF* they have a choic

Re: Sober

2005-12-02 Thread Michael Loftis
--On December 2, 2005 2:02:15 PM -0600 Dennis Dayman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Interested, but I see many Sober postings and outages on other lists and not here...has anyone been having issues? I know the ISP's are fighting the living out of the virus. I've been seeing a few really larg

Re: Outbound mail filtering on large mail / web server farms - just an idea or two that I have

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 21, 2005 8:55:39 AM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/20/05, Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: quite often, which they already do to our normal mail systems even when things are going well, again, because of forwards. I'

Re: Outbound mail filtering on large mail / web server farms - just an idea or two that I have

2005-11-20 Thread Michael Loftis
--On November 20, 2005 8:48:08 PM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I originally wrote this lot below as boilerplate for large webhosting providers that find themselves with several racks full of pizzabox colos running a web control panel like ensim or cpanel so that t

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Michael Loftis
--On October 7, 2005 7:13:45 PM -0400 William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Richard A Steenbergen wrote: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1 0-07-2005/0004164041&EDATE= "On October 6, Level 3, as it had repeatedly advised Cogent it would, t

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

2005-09-26 Thread Michael Loftis
--On September 26, 2005 8:59:31 AM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 25/09/05, Michael Loftis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: result in me having to call postmaster to get them to remove it. Also just one hacked webform usually results in the same prob

Re: 209.68.1.140 (209.68.1.0 /24) blocked by bellsouth.net for SMTP

2005-09-25 Thread Michael Loftis
--On September 24, 2005 10:20:24 PM -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, this is quite clearly the case; there are dozens of mutual customers who have forwarding rules setup. We are not generating Spam to send to Bellsouth; it's coming from somewhere else and then being forwarded. At my $em

Requst for tech/peering contact to Qwest, Bresnan/ATT Worldnet(?) (for Montana)

2005-09-19 Thread Michael Loftis
Please reply privately, off-list... I know this is probably not the best place, but Qwest, being Qwest, if I call their main numbers and try to ask about peering, they do s/peering/transit/ and route me to sales. I need to speak to someone in Qwest about peering at NWIX in Missoula, MT -- ht

Re: DirectNIC requests BellSouth help.

2005-09-01 Thread Michael Loftis
--On September 1, 2005 8:20:12 PM + Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: directnic's nameservers appear to have been botchified during some kind of hurried attempt to mirror them outside of new orleans. <...> good eyes paul, been in contact with people over there and it's getting fixe

Re: Replacing PSTN with VoIP wise? Was Re: Phone networks struggle in Hurricane Katrina's wake

2005-08-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 31, 2005 2:03:01 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <...> On the other hand, in a circuit switched network you can do all kinds of interesting stuff (such as restarting all your control software) without breaking your sessions. We're only now seeing this in IP, and I think it's not

Re: What application runs on port 8094?

2005-08-18 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 18, 2005 4:25:53 PM +0200 Lars Erik Gullerud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since the traffic was 8094/UDP it is definitely not BitTorrent, who uses TCP transport. Azureus, a very popular BT client, has a distributed tracker database mechanism, to get around overloaded/unreliabl

Re: power strip with individually monitorable outlet current

2005-08-08 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 7, 2005 3:01:25 PM -1000 Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: don't know the 7901, but i can sure vouch for the 7900 which joel recommended to me. it has saved me from using remote hands to whack a wedged server so many times. Same thing. AP7901 is a NEMA L5-20P/5-20R an

Re: Why some of us are IPv6 holdouts (Was: /8 end user assignment?)

2005-08-06 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 6, 2005 6:56:27 PM + "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: a good email over all explaining more parts of the pie :) sweet! Thanks... I try to add something to the threads when I weigh in... <..> ok, good... now in 5 years when there are 'many more' v6 us

Re: /8 end user assignment?

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 5, 2005 12:50:08 PM +0200 Sabri Berisha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:08PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Hi, I'm not sure how much room additional records take up, but I think it's a little under 30 bytes. At this rate, there is no way yo

Why some of us are IPv6 holdouts (Was: /8 end user assignment?)

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 5, 2005 11:13:13 AM +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any particular reason why a service over IPv6 couldn't be load balanced by putting a good number of records in the DNS? Since most IPv6-capable browsers have decent support for trying mult

Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think

2005-08-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On August 3, 2005 2:10:10 PM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <...> Contrary to what some may be worrying about, it it not the GSRs that are most at risk. It is those old 2500's that are connected to your customers. Imagine that one of those customer routers is exploited, the hacker installs

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On July 9, 2005 10:42:57 AM -0700 Alexei Roudnev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LC can hold only 20,000 ACTIVE routes., and ask central system if it needs more., How many ACTIVE routes are used in any CORE router? 0.1% or CORE? 2% of CORE? Again, today it is not technical issue anymore. Cac

Re: Battery Maint in LEC equipment

2005-06-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On June 5, 2005 8:11:41 PM -0700 Jay Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The corollary to this question: If your data center has an adequate DC plant, will the carriers insist on installing their own batteries and rectifiers? And how many of them have redundant supplies to take advantage

Re: google.com outage?

2005-05-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On May 7, 2005 7:37:01 PM -0400 "Jonathan M. Slivko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm did anyone hear anything about a Google outage that's been going on for the past 20 minutes or so? It appears to be DNS related (ns1-ns4.google.com didn't have a record of www.google.com or www.gmail.com).

Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN etc

2005-04-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, April 20, 2005 7:41 AM +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.circleid.com/article/1045_0_1_0_C/ That's a must read article, I'd say. The article seems to be well put and well thought out explanation of what 'we' know. That you can't produce IP addre

Re: AOL's brains on the floor?

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Loftis
OK got quite a few confirmations of their IM services being out and one or two others who noticed www.aol.com being out. Noticed a few complaints about mail server issues at another site I admin, but all from AOL subscribers, and it's cleared up now except for IM services. Thanks for the feedb

AOL's brains on the floor?

2005-03-30 Thread Michael Loftis
Anyone else confirm? Looks like AIM, www.aol.com...maybe more, are all down form various POPs here.

Re: Apology: [Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming]

2005-03-25 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, March 26, 2005 11:51 AM +0530 G Pavan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is with my deepest regrets that I apologize from the bottom of my heart to Mr.Gilmore, Mr.Woodcock, Mr.Bush and also the rest of the honourable members of the list for being ignorant of how high-profile a

Re: Tier-2 reachability and multihoming

2005-03-23 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, March 23, 2005 4:54 PM +0530 G Pavan Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, I have been working on characterizing the internet hierarchy. I noticed that 27% of the total possible tier-2 provider node pairs are not connected i.e., they dont have any tier-1 node conn

Re: Traceroute with ASN

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Tuesday, March 15, 2005 2:22 AM -0800 Bruce Pinsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ziggy David Lubowa wrote: | On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:51:32 +0800 (CST), Joe Shen wrote | |> Yes. Can I do this on a Linux box without having to |> install Zebra BGP on

Re: nanog

2005-03-13 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, March 13, 2005 10:28 PM -0500 "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But note that the OP does not have a MOV issue; he has an inspector issue. His best answer there may be buying outlet strips that offer no surge protection. He likely will need to first pin the inspector down

Fire Code/UFC Regs?

2005-03-11 Thread Michael Loftis
OK this is only probably marginally operational. Yesterday we were inspected (quite thoroughly I might add.) by the city fire inspector for Missoula, MTNow we did have a couple of things I know need fixing, an emergency light with a dead battery upstairs, I'm using a long orange extens

Re: vonage routing issues

2005-03-04 Thread Michael Loftis
I'm seeing the same problem here from two points, dropping dead inside/customer edge at ALTERalso can't get to their site. I don't know about my Vonage phone at home though. I can check it when I finally make it home tonight but by then it will probably clear upWhatever it is, it's n

Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites

2005-03-04 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, March 04, 2005 11:06 AM -0500 Patrick W Gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Would "unplug your cable" qualify as a "way to disable access"? In the same way the FCC allowed TV to so graciously implement the 'V-CHIP' technology? I doubt it. Aside fromt he normal bents of Utah, I be

Re: AOL scomp

2005-02-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, February 24, 2005 10:18 AM -0800 chuck goolsbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists. The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL acco

Re: IRC Bot list (cross posting)

2005-02-09 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:28 +0200 Gadi Evron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is it a bad idea then? Because not all of us are Bill Nash who won't pwn a user. The same can easily be said for ANY public forum.

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

2005-02-03 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, February 03, 2005 11:42 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you let your customers send an unlimited number of emails per day? Per hour? Per minute? If so, then why? Because there are *NO* packages available that offer limiting. Free or commercial.

Re: Contact point for Lockheed Martin...

2005-01-26 Thread Michael Loftis
No longer needed, they finally got back to me via regular channels. Sorry for the list spam folks.

Contact point for Lockheed Martin...

2005-01-26 Thread Michael Loftis
Does anyone have a live and clueful contact point for Lockheed? They're running some badly broken proxy software that requests HTTP keepalive service, then 'forgets' about the connection. After forgetting about the connection it makes new ones. Right now I'm playing whack-a-mole as whatever

Re: Those interested in NANOG governance, please read...

2005-01-24 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Monday, January 24, 2005 16:35 -0500 John Fraizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sadly, I won't be attending but, I'm sure someone from Cisco and/or PCH will be there and can probably come up with the VoIP phone. There are many folks on the INOC-DBA system who are running Asterisk as well so,

Registrar and registry backend processes.

2005-01-17 Thread Michael Loftis
I think, briefly, that we need to force Verisign and the registrars to be FAR more public about the backend process for WHOIS data and for the TLD zone data. Especially with .com, .net, and probably .org, and this latest failure of 'the system' and the obvious lack of information on 'the system

Re: panix.com hijacked (VeriSign refuses to help)

2005-01-16 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, January 16, 2005 07:40 + Thor Lancelot Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The purported current admin contact appears to be a couple in Las Vegas who are probably the victims of a joe job. A little searching will reveal that people by that name really *do* live at the address giv

Internap power outage?

2005-01-14 Thread Michael Loftis
From hitting LiveJournal's home page there is/was a major Internap power outage? Any details? Related to Y! Financials outage? -- Undocumented Features quote of the moment... "It's not the one bullet with your name on it that you have to worry about; it's the twenty thousand-odd rounds labeled

Re: Weekly Routing Table Report

2005-01-07 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, January 07, 2005 18:15 -0600 Jerry Pasker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This was about the weekly routing table report, but I'm going to bring in some numbers from the CIDR report. It would be back down to 140k if the "dirty 30" top offenders in the CIDR Report would aggregate their r

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 15:38 -0500 Paul G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Original Message - From: "Paul Trebilco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 3:30 PM Subject: Re: verizon.net and other email grief How so? Are you maybe confusing reject

Re: verizon.net and other email grief

2004-12-10 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, December 10, 2004 12:30 -0800 Paul Trebilco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christopher X. Candreva wrote: That would be 1000's of other people's servers getting traffic from you because someone forged their address in the spam. You are effectively doubleing the total load spam places on

RE: I want my own IPs

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, November 12, 2004 15:43 -0500 "K. Scott Bethke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to second this, it really is a simple process. I continue to hear horror stories from people who BELIEVE that it is hard to get PI space. Read the policy, submit the documentation that they ask for and

Re: I want my own IPs

2004-11-12 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, November 12, 2004 14:14 -0500 Alex Kamantauskas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yep, I blinked while going through the small town of ARIN Policy and missed it :) ARIN Number Resource Policy Manual, 4.2.2.2: "When requesting a /22, demonstrate the efficient utilization of a minimum contig

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-08-16 Thread Michael Loftis
I'm not a lawyer but I still think businesses have a valid lawsuit against Verisign for whatever the legal term is for using their copyrighted names and likenesses. With SiteFinder it guarantees Verisign 'owns' any domain a particular company may no have yet purchased until such time that they

RE: Quick question.

2004-07-31 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, July 31, 2004 20:51 -0700 Michel Py <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For PCs I install dual Xeons on every production machine for example, even though the CPU power needed for some is a 486; Intel processors do die like anything else; a processor dying will typically lead to a system c

RE: T1 short-haul vs. long-haul

2004-07-22 Thread Michael Loftis
hate to say it but what is pictured is not a smart jack, it is as you say a glorified patch. a *TRUE* smart jack DOES have the tiny bit of circuitry necess'y to cause it to loop the line back when nothing is connected to it, some can do it via line signaling as well. in some telco territory wh

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Saturday, June 19, 2004 22:04 -0400 Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Howdy, Is there any place where people with experience dealing with DDoS attacks hang out? I'm getting very little assistance from my upstream beyond "call whomever is in charge of each IP attacking and make t

Re: Yahoo mail public notice of problems ?

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, June 17, 2004 15:00 -0400 Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a notice I can point non Yahoo Mail customers to explaining why there are delivery delays? We are seeing a lot of stalled deliveries again, and it would be nice to point to an explanation by yahoo as to wha

Re: Pushing GTLD zones [WAS: Akamai DNS Issue?]

2004-06-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Thursday, June 17, 2004 16:07 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: think stability. I think recent events prove pretty well that Verisign GRS no longer gives a crap about stability. Have we forgotten *.COM so quickly?

Re: Charter blocking Port 25

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Loftis
Well this could explain the large drop in SPAM loads seen by a lot of us (atleast in part).

Re: remote reboot power strips

2004-04-19 Thread Michael Loftis
I've had good luck with the various APC rPDU/MasterSwitch Models as well as models by Cyclades (yup they're still around and make more than just terminal servers and serial port boards) HTH! -- GPG/PGP --> 0xE736BD7E 5144 6A2D 977A 6651 DFBE 1462 E351 88B9 E736 BD7E

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-14 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Sunday, March 14, 2004 19:14 -0600 Stephen Sprunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Students have an existing legal relationship with the school; they can be required to accept the AUP in writing at some point during the enrollment process. Experiment ... go to a college dorm that's wired, plug y

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

2004-02-10 Thread Michael Loftis
has contacts in the media? Who would be willing to submit to interviews? Etc. It's totally ridiculous, but this is a political issue being allowed to effect the technical system, and as is almost always the case, it's a miserable failure. -- Michael Loftis

Re: [IP] VeriSign prepares to relaunch "Site Finder" -- calls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Loftis
7;T* be patched? What about systems that have long depended on the way things are supposed to work? -- Michael Loftis

Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders

2003-12-01 Thread Michael Loftis
I personally haven't seen ANY validation, just an arbitrary block that's been in place for over a month without cause, reason, or even any ability to contact them. It appears nobody at verizon is at the helm anymore. I've tried several times to contact abuse, postmaster, etc, and even a couple

Apologies but...Verizon Postmaster?

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Loftis
I have been trying for weeks to get in touch with someone who will respond with something other than a form letter at Verizon. Can someone please contact me off-list? My company (Modwest) is being unilaterally blocked. I can't even send mail to abuse, postmaster, etc. from an @modwest.com add

Re: Portable Cooling

2003-11-12 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Wednesday, November 12, 2003 16:07 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I searched the archives and couldn't find anything about a portable cooling units so am resorting to posting, sorry if its redundant. I am setting up a development lab and need additional cooling on a temporary basis. IMHO

RE: Verizon Postmaster contact?

2003-11-03 Thread Michael Loftis
Getting 550's all day on MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- noticed it because we're running billing. --On Monday, November 03, 2003 20:29 -0500 Charles Sprickman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Dennis Dayman wrote: I am working on the issue(s) now. The only problem is, you're no

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

2003-10-23 Thread Michael Loftis
I fully approve, so long as there's a documented, opt-me-out process for those that may need that sort of thingbut I think the majority is pretty well served by this sort of thing. Unlike say changes proposed by some companies. I just don't know how far to draw the line, and it needs to be

Re: Fascinating interview with Verisign CEO

2003-10-17 Thread Michael Loftis
--On Friday, October 17, 2003 11:02 AM +0100 Andrew Bangs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, but, part of what pissed off many folk was that someone was messing about with data near the top of the DNS tree which they thought were inviolable. Reconfiguring nameservers to ask for .COM and .NET detai

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