RE: Slight OT: NASA World Wind project looking for support from network operators.

2005-06-07 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 5 Jun 2005, Matt Mills wrote: > Why we don't use Bittorrent for the distribution of the satellite data: > > This is just where P2P and satellite data don't mesh. In order for the > program to work and not be incredibly frustrating and boring, the tiles > (imagery and elevation) have to

RE: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Jon Lewis wrote: > If you're multihomed and using Cogent as a cheap bandwidth whore, does > it matter if their cheap bandwidth gives you 155k routes instead of 168k > routes? After all, if its cheap and off-loads enough traffic from your > more expensive 168k route circuits

Re: Lazy network operators - NOT

2004-04-28 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 18 Apr 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > It would be important to make this a list of legitimate SMTP hosts > only, and NOT a list of non-spammers, as the former can be determined > through technical means (1) and the latter is open to endless debate. > (As we can see with pretty much a

Re: Barracuda Networks Spam Firewall

2004-05-20 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Eric A. Hall wrote: > my last 10 survivors are at http://www.ehsco.com/misc/last-10-spams.eml > the relevant data for them in order of occurrance is below. > > eight are CN, one is KR, one is Geocities, and one is dead Different people get different spam, from different sour

Re: "Intel calls for Internet overhaul"

2004-09-10 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Rachael Treu-Gomes wrote: > And tunnels in tunnels in tunnels... > > I see some deep recursion fun here. I can see some nice routing loops coming up, with packets for tunnel endpoints being routed through the tunnel interface itself, etc... ;) Rik -- "Debugging is twice as

Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards

2003-09-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Duane Wessels wrote: > I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break, > now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards. Makes me wonder why Verisign didn't use a (less harmful?) CNAME wildcard ... Rik -- "Debugging is twice as h

Re: A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards

2003-09-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: > What this means is, there is no such thing as a wildcard CNAME. Funny... $ host -t cname \*.TD *.TD is an alias for www.nic.TD. Rik -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as

Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL list

2003-09-27 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS wrote: > Distributing an RBL list is the easy part. Why stop there ? The generating of the list itself can be a P2P thing too. You could peer with a group of people you trust and exchange the list of IP addresses that send crap into each ot

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Rik van Riel
Allan Poindexter wrote: The functionality of my email is still almost completely intact. The only time it isn't is when some antispam kook somewhere decides he knows better than me what I want to read. Spam is manageable problem without the self appointed censors. Get over it and move on.

Re: comast email issues, who else has them?

2006-08-31 Thread Rik van Riel
Mark Jeftovic wrote: Has anyone ever managed to open a dialogue with symantec (or comcast) about that fscked up proprietary RBL they are using? We're on the verge of just giving up on comcast I know Sender Verification Callback has its issues, but maybe it would make sense to only accept em