Re: disabling SMTP

2004-03-28 Thread Rob Nelson
yes. there are a lot of pix firewalls out there with smtp fixup turned on, effectively disabling ESMTP (not to mention sporadically breaking traditional SMTP.) Could you elaborate on this? I use PIX firewalls all over the place and don't seem to have a problem with SMTP or ESMTP. Rob N

Re: disabling SMTP

2004-03-29 Thread Rob Nelson
problem when an SMTP server is hosted behind the PIX? I thought the fixup statements were for outbound connections, and with it on right now I get the full banner from SMTP servers. I don't host an SMTP server myself, so can't check that. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-17 Thread Rob Nelson
me them, can you? Is this authorization-filter-scheme going to account for servers on dynamic IP? Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lazy network operators

2004-04-17 Thread Rob Nelson
l me that file, again" and it's not going anywhere. At that point, email is 100% dead. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?

2004-05-14 Thread Rob Nelson
e gets slashdotted on the 30th. The difference is in 29 days of downtime. And no, I don't have a solution to offer for that one, but that's what always annoys me - to see a site get slashdotted at the beginning of the month, knowing my attention span won't last until next month :) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: FW: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-04 Thread Rob Nelson
plenty of holes that a firewall/nat box won't fix. Still, better than the user only doing Windows Update on the day of install and never having a firewall... Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Worms versus Bots

2004-05-03 Thread Rob Nelson
f the 100% worm or virus files. The trojan programs, bots, and spyware stick around. It would be a wonderful program that scanned for and cleaned up BOTH virus and bot files... Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Pay-As-You-Use High-Speed Internet?

2004-05-15 Thread Rob Nelson
orts 3 meg on their residential cable, 4 meg on Commercial accounts. I'd be interested in how you'd compete with them AND not have to oversubscribe. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Off-Topic: Sunday night beer @ Zeitgeist, NANOG31

2004-05-16 Thread Rob Nelson
, mind you!) to get there... Um. State, City, Zip Code? :) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-12 Thread Rob Nelson
s too difficult, and doesn't pay, to try and treat them differently. The extra $10 a month isn't going to justify the $20 spent making the changes or talking to the person on the phone. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet

2004-06-13 Thread Rob Nelson
I damn well ain't sharing that with anyone. In the meantime, the ISP noticed the virus and put a block on. Do I have to pay them $500 to get it removed? Definitely cheaper to cancel service and go with someone else at that point. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license

2004-06-13 Thread Rob Nelson
or them to install an $80 wireless system or some such, in which case I'll do it for $200 ;) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can

2004-06-15 Thread Rob Nelson
Eventually all the "bad" customers end up with the same ISP, then filtering is as easy as running loose uRPF and filtering on their AS on input. And that's why we can all safely dump anything from aol.com into /dev/null, right? ;) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Math 011 (Re: "Default" Points on your Internet "Re: Re: Re:")

2004-06-15 Thread Rob Nelson
us, what happens when we start getting virus'es that use SSL/SSH to communicate? You're going to be SoL at determining packet contents at that point... Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Rob Nelson
court case where a President has phone sex on a VoIP line ;) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Campus size Wireless LAN

2004-07-24 Thread Rob Nelson
very similar web interface that's fairly intuitive. All of it will work (especially at <1mile LOS), it's a question of what other features you're expecting/looking for. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convention networks and viruses

2004-08-05 Thread Rob Nelson
he geeks at whatever booth they were snagging swag at :) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Definition of P2P (was Feinstein)

2004-08-31 Thread Rob Nelson
Peer, or Client to Peer. Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Okay, I'm just going to _assume_...

2004-10-25 Thread Rob Nelson
rate survey. That's less than .001% of the population of America. Yep, in-depth survey :) Rob Nelson Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-30 Thread Rob Nelson
G, or even Nagios itself, you can use a little "notes_url" command to create a link from, say, the "ping" service of your core router to the MRTG charts of bandwidth usage. Rob Nelson Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Network Monitoring System - Recommendations?

2004-10-30 Thread Rob Nelson
ew blank spots where checks got delayed due to other outages, and then there's no info to use. MRTG/cricket just runs off cron, which means it hardly misses a beat. Rob Nelson Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Enterprise Multihoming

2004-03-11 Thread Rob Nelson
There are similar boxes from FatPipe and Radware (and others) that promise the same thing. I've done some light research on them and while I can see some positives, I don't prefer them to our current solution. Then again, I don't have any practical experience with them and I hope someone who has

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

2004-03-13 Thread Rob Nelson
given the way-more-efficient 1U colo model. On the other hand, if the person doesn't have a UPS at home, what good is when their SMTP server in a colo is still chugging? :) Rob Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Publish or (gulp) Perish

2004-03-24 Thread Rob Nelson
I'm leaving off "news" publications like Light Reading and Network World. Any thoughts? Have NANOG powerpoint presentations made these sorts of journals obsolete? :) Don't forget SysAdmin, altho it's waning as its page size has continuously decreased. http://www.sama