RE: [cacti-announce] Cacti 0.8.6j Released (fwd)

2007-05-09 Thread Steve Sobol
example, if you're running a tool like Cacti. (which we do at $DAYJOB, and fortunately, I've never had to screw around with MIBs or OIDs) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games

Re: Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

2007-04-13 Thread Steve Sobol
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > Since when is it "punishment" to refuse to extend a privilege that's been > repeatedly and systematically abused? It IS punishment if it's in response to some sort of undesired behavior, but it probably isn't UNJUSTIFI

Re: Blocking mail from bad places

2007-04-05 Thread Steve Sobol
valid > bounces from the "noise". Backscatter from spam forgeries is *the* reason stevesobol.com is no longer a catchall domain. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Verizon was Re: Netops list

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Sobol
impossible, but with the DSL modem at least ten feet off the floor, it's a royal pain. I have found someone at Verizon who has offered to look at the situation, however. Thanks to you and especially to Richard G who offered to go out there, but hopefully a site visit will not be necessary. -

Verizon was Re: Netops list

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Sobol
ust trying to escalate to someone who won't require me to run a battery of tests on a DSL circuit that I know to be working properly. Getting access to the DSL modem and plugging a computer in, due to the layout of the Roslyn location, is not practical at all. Thanks in advance. -- Steve S

Re: Netops list

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Sobol
t to post here saying "Can someone from $ISP contact me" without doing due diligence first... -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Netops list

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Sobol
If I am seeing a routing problem, is Jared's list an appropriate place to check for contacts at the ISP with the problem? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someon

Re: multiple-choice question of the day

2007-03-18 Thread Steve Sobol
es: > a - The war in Iraq > b - DNSsec > c - IPv6 e - ICANN's fight with RegisterFly > d - All of the above -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: AUP enforcement diligence

2007-03-16 Thread Steve Sobol
e, whether we're talking spam, botnets, phising, cracking attempts, whatever... -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Sobol
problems. Fair enough. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Possibly OT, definately humor. rDNS is to policy set by federal law.

2007-03-15 Thread Steve Sobol
, I'd not try to weasel out of fixing it.) > Personally, we gave up using SORBS because of it's very high > false-positive ratio YMMV; at $DAYJOB we don't seem to have the same problem. Disclaimer: My opinions, not my boss's, etc. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/V

Re: Every incident is an opportunity (was Re: Hackers hit key Internet

2007-02-11 Thread Steve Sobol
s the only sane way to approach content on the net. Why do you feel it's unreasonable? Or are you being sarcastic? (It's impossible to tell) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and game

Re: what the heck do i do now?

2007-01-31 Thread Steve Sobol
carrot needs to be traded in for a stick. 100% in agreement with everything Derek says. In the immediate term, it's *very* rude to just return false positives for everything, but maps.vix.com hasn't been a live DNSBL since 1999... -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl

Re: what happens when you put a typo in a DNSBL server?

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Sobol
issue. --Steve ** P)roblem E)xists B)etween K)eyboard A)nd C)hair, in this case the KAC of the person who isn't checking that he's configured the right hostname for the DNSBL. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3

Re: Network end users to pull down 2 gigabytes a day, continuously?

2007-01-12 Thread Steve Sobol
nal benefits. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Microsoft Corporate Postmaster Contact?

2006-12-19 Thread Steve Sobol
the top of the thread yet, but if you're looking to resolve security issues, SNDS is not the place to go. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Microsoft Corporate Postmaster Contact?

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Sobol
in describing the situation. :) Microsoft doesn't profit from having you as a Hotmail user, except that they can then claim you as another one of their gazillion users and occasionally email you telling you you Really Need to Take Advantage of Some Non-Free Product Or Service. -- Steve Sobol, P

RE: Microsoft Corporate Postmaster Contact?

2006-12-18 Thread Steve Sobol
ation. . . . . sigh. . sigh...? Sign up for a free Windows Live Mail (Hotmail) account, and bingo, you have a Passport login. Hardly a show-stopper. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games

Re: Verizon PSTN continued

2006-11-07 Thread Steve Sobol
office in the Inland Empire about an hour north of Riverside. Verizon is the ILEC here too. No problems here; it may have been localized to the San Bernardino/Riverside area. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Victorville, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Sobol
On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Steve Sobol wrote: > On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Alexander Harrowell wrote: > > > Are you sure it's genuine? Those WWD domains (especially > > secureserver.net) account for a large fraction of the spam and > > phishing attempts I receive. > > S

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-05 Thread Steve Sobol
reseller, your customer notifications come from that domain. They also do web and email hosting, which is probably why you're seeing the abusive behavior, but they do have a working abuse desk, so if you see stuff from there, definitely report it. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/V

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
7;s any global requirement for the registrars to do it, and the "valid info" requirement itself is only a few years old. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
admin contact records, and just eliminating duplicates. I'm surprised that (apparently) some registrars don't do that. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: [Fwd: Important ICANN Notice Regarding Your Domain Name(s)]

2006-10-04 Thread Steve Sobol
ccurate information in WHOIS and while I don't know how strongly the requirement is enforced, they *can* pull your domain registration if you don't have accurate information. That's the reason for those notifications. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Per

Re: Removal of my brain

2006-09-20 Thread Steve Sobol
tries to sanely render HTML to a text-only display. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Is it my imagination or are countless operations impacted today with mysql meltdowns

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Sobol
d, the information still might be of some use to many of thee people here. **SJS (owie, straddling the fence *hurts*, maybe I should move now) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and game

Re: Is it my imagination or are countless operations impacted today with mysql meltdowns

2006-08-27 Thread Steve Sobol
publicly by NANOG itself). It's just... weird. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: Wikipedia/Cogent

2006-08-19 Thread Steve Sobol
Leo Bicknell wrote: > Maybe they don't like: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cogent_Communications If they are blackholing Wikipedia because of a wiki page that doesn't describe anything besides some basic, publically known facts, they have some *serious* problems. -- Steve Sobol,

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Sobol
you the person complaining about *others* being alarmist? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP:0xE3AE35ED It's all fun and games until someone starts a bonfire in the living room.

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-10 Thread Steve Sobol
acklists, etc. is growing thin. You're certainly welcome to encourage others not to use blacklists. Just understand that you have no right to complain when they decide to continue using those blacklists. Having said that, do understand that I don't think DNSBL's are a panacea, nor ar

Question for the List Maintaners -- (Re: SORBS Contact)

2006-08-09 Thread Steve Sobol
d that spam is offtopic, although the issue of hijacked netblocks certainly isn't. So I probably should have replied to you off-list (apologies to everyone else for lowering the S:N ratio). I don't know what the official word is on whether DNSBL operations in general are on-topic for this

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Steve Sobol
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Steve Sobol wrote: > I don't know what your problem is, but you're not making things any better > by refusing to fix listings that aren't incorrect or, in some cases, never > were. Feh. Listings that are NO LONGER CORRECT, or in some cases, neve

Re: SORBS Contact

2006-08-09 Thread Steve Sobol
ill spamming. So what?) I don't know what your problem is, but you're not making things any better by refusing to fix listings that aren't incorrect or, in some cases, never were. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, Califo

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Sobol
On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, Simon Waters wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 Jul 2006 07:19, Steve Sobol wrote: > > > > There's a big difference, of course, between INTENTIONALLY pointing your > > computers at DNS servers that do this kind of thing, and having it done for > >

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-11 Thread Steve Sobol
Joseph Jackson wrote: > If its their corp IT peopl. Oh well they should get over it. If isp > vote with your dollars. Exactly. That choice didn't exist with Sitefinder. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, California PGP

Re: Sitefinder II, the sequel...

2006-07-10 Thread Steve Sobol
Joseph Jackson wrote: > Nice troll. Nah, wasn't even entertaining. There's a big difference, of course, between INTENTIONALLY pointing your computers at DNS servers that do this kind of thing, and having it done for you without your knowledge and/or consent. -- Steve Sobol, Prof

Re: Copper thefts in california

2006-07-07 Thread Steve Sobol
- about 2 1/2 hours from eastern border to western border, and at least that far from north to south) - as well as the fact that much of the county consists of uninhabited desert areas - I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often here. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/P

Re: Nationwide Routing issues with Wiltel

2006-06-26 Thread Steve Sobol
y further details? I have a box sitting in a colo off a WCG circuit in Columbus, OH; traceroutes from the west coast were dying a few hops short of the colo facility, but I'm not a direct customer of WCG, so calling them for info would have been pointless... -- Steve Sobol, Professional

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-12 Thread Steve Sobol
her ends of expensive > and flaky International transit connections. Not. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, CA Resident of Southern California - the home of beautiful people and butt-ugly traffic jams

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

2006-04-13 Thread Steve Sobol
ack is the right answer. Well I just saw your .sig... Can't give any credit to your statement. Your choice. I don't see any sense in arguing the point further, as you probably won't change your mind. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD

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

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Sobol
st as I'm allowed to tell you your opinion is silly" S -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, CA Resident of Southern California - the home of beautiful people and butt-ugly traffic jams

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

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Sobol
rties. And how exactly will the typical person buying a consumer-grade router even know something's wrong, in this case? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, CA Resident of Southern California - the home of beautiful people and butt-ugly traffic jams

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

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Sobol
of the device may result. Use only hard-wired > network connections. Cisco/Linksys says the same thing. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek ** Java/VB/VC/PHP/Perl ** Linux/*BSD/Windows Apple Valley, CA Resident of Southern California - the home of beautiful people and butt-ugly traffic jams

Re: XO Connectivity

2006-03-17 Thread Steve Sobol
out here, things seem normal. I'm on a Verizon DSL line but have had no trouble getting to any of our biggest clients' sites, most of which sit on XO broadband (either DSL or T1). -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe

Re: Welcome back, Ma Bell

2006-03-05 Thread Steve Sobol
Eric A. Hall wrote: > What are people worried about here exactly? The same lack of competition in telecommunications that we had in the 1980s? Granted, it won't ever be quite *that* bad again, but we're slowly moving back towards one monolithic ILEC, and that does worry me. --

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-28 Thread Steve Sobol
spewer. If there have been repeated problems with him not dealing with abuse problems from his customers, disconnection is definitely justified. If this was the first or second incident, probably not. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http

Re: Wifi SIP WPA/PSK Support

2006-01-27 Thread Steve Sobol
onnection is better than no security/encryption at all. You won't be able to do anything about the LEOs if they really want to listen to your {IP|cellular|landline} phone conversations. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.ne

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

2006-01-17 Thread Steve Sobol
not a registrar, but I do host DNS for many domains. So if my customer spams and I cut them off, including DNS, do you have a problem with that too? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio:

RE: West Coast broken?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Sobol
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Nine, Jason wrote: > Wouldn't happen to be a sprint backbone would it? No. Verizon business DSL to (primarily) XO DSL and T's in various locations. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/

Re: West Coast broken?

2006-01-09 Thread Steve Sobol
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Erik Amundson wrote: > Mud slides? Fiber cuts? What the heck? All my west-coast lines went > splat a while ago... I'm on the west coast and have seen no issues from the DSL line I'm using to most places today. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 88

RE: WMF patch

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Sobol
well.. According to isc.sans.org, hexblog.com was down due to bandwidth issues earlier. See the isc.sans.org homepage for details on alternate ways to get to it. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resum

Re: Sober Z virus

2006-01-04 Thread Steve Sobol
a) Has the registrar been contacted about this, and b) has anyone tried calling the US number listed in the WHOIS record? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: SMTP store and forward requires DSN for integrity (was Re:Clueless anti-virus )

2005-12-10 Thread Steve Sobol
ain MIME part in your message, where it isn't likely that it could do any harm even if it *was* a real virus. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Clueless anti-virus products/vendors (was Re: Sober)

2005-12-04 Thread Steve Sobol
barracuda.ci.garner.nc.us barracuda.ship.k12.pa.us and many, many more. Blocking based on rDNS simply because it implies that a certain piece of equipment is at that address is... not advisable. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http

Re: What do we mean when we say "competition?"

2005-11-27 Thread Steve Sobol
Owen DeLong wrote: VZ certainly shouldn't remove any copper that doesn't belong to VZ. So, unless they are the ILEC in Apple Valley They are the ILEC in Apple Valley. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Per

Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Sobol
ad dial-up, my maximum rate dropeed from about 45K to 37Kbps during and for a day or two following rain. *nod* but that's 56K dialup, which is a crapshoot anyhow. I'd be more interested in finding out if there were any weather-related issues with services that are normally more stable tha

Re: Verizon outage in Southern California?

2005-10-18 Thread Steve Sobol
't happen very often around here.) -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Snail: 22674 Motnocab Road, Apple Valley, CA 92307

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-13 Thread Steve Sobol
e in Los Angeles (I live and work 55-65 miles northeast of downtown), but it seems to me that the problem could have been avoided with a little more caution on the part of the person who cut the wires. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustT

Re: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google

2005-09-08 Thread Steve Sobol
Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: That kind of goes hand-in-hand with Vint's Galactic Internet theme. Uhhh... why does a dotcom need an Internet evangelist? :-S -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, r

Re: This fall in LA

2005-08-31 Thread Steve Sobol
Susan Harris wrote: http://www.arin.net/ARIN-XVI/ipv6_workshop.html https://www.merit.edu/nanog/registration.form.html Does anyone besides me notice that there is no venue listed on either page? Or am I just missing something? -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638

Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls

2005-08-21 Thread Steve Sobol
hen marketed for the elderly, disabled, etc. No, that's wrong. Lifeline service can be flat rate too, it's for people who for whatever reason can't afford normal phone service (you must meet certain income requirements). -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PG

Re: AOL and mail-accepting rules

2005-07-22 Thread Steve Sobol
codes and if need be, there's a toll-free number they can call to talk to a human in the proper department at AOL. -- Steve Sobol, Professional Geek 888-480-4638 PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Company website: http://JustThe.net/ Personal blog, resume, portfolio: http://SteveSobol.com/ E: [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: You're all over thinking this

2005-07-21 Thread Steve Sobol
trees to the south of my house, with DirecTV's satellite *and* Dish's satellite both requiring line of sight to the southwest. during hurricane season. (Although I'd rather not slide into the discussion about how 911 works for us.) It doesn't? ;) **SJS [0] All monetary fi

Re: London incidents

2005-07-12 Thread Steve Sobol
ike of cellphone drivers isn't completely orthogonal to this discussion, eh? It also doesn't make you sound biased. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas p

Re: Report: Major Newspaper Sites Hobbled by Power Woes

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Sobol
uld be more careful about protecting a major extension to its core business. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life

Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]

2005-06-11 Thread Steve Sobol
d that's not likely to change soon. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

Re: Economics of SPAM [Was: Micorsoft's Sender ID Authentication......?]

2005-06-11 Thread Steve Sobol
legislative. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP: 0xE3AE35ED Coming to you from Southern California's High Desert, where the temperatures are as high as the gas prices! / 888.480.4NET (4638) "Life's like an hourglass glued to the table" --Anna Nalick, "Breathe"

Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

2005-06-02 Thread Steve Sobol
John Bittenbender wrote: We don't provide email services to our customers. Sure you do. When I was a VZW customer, I had a vtext.com email address and a few aliases. (BTW, you should provide better spam filtering to your customers who use SMS, but that's something we can talk about offli

Re: Verizon is easily fooled by spamming zombies

2005-06-01 Thread Steve Sobol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Anything from anywhere, even if it's from a hijacked box in Korea, can forward through our server as long as it has a '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' From: on it, but if one of our own customers tries to send through the server with a From: that says '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' they can't

Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Sobol
Following up to my own post I'm going to forward this to an acquaintance I have at Verizon.net and see what he says. Mail's been sent. Don't know how busy my friend is, but he should be able to get back to me relatively quickly. -- JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4

Re: VerizonWireless.com Mail Blacklists

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Sobol
Crist Clark wrote: It appears VerizonWireless.com has some rather aggressive mail filters. Verizon.net's blocking of Europe, Asia, Africa... well, everything but North America has made some headlines and even some lawsuits. Anyone know if VerizonWireless.com and Verizon.net are independent operatio

Re: what will all you who work for private isp's be doing in a few years?

2005-05-11 Thread Steve Sobol
Fred Heutte wrote: (1) There will be a market for independent ISPs as long CLECs I think a more appropriate term would be ALEC (anti-competitive local exchange carrier) ...That having been said, the problem with the small guys providing access is they can't generally achieve the economies of scale

Re: SMTP AUTH

2005-05-02 Thread Steve Sobol
Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are plenty of non-Windows mailers which support SMTP auth - the > list below includes quite a few Mac OS, cross platform, and UNIX / Linux > clients. Not only that, but on a *nix system, it's possible to configure > the MTA as an authenticated SMTP

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2005-04-29 Thread Steve Sobol
Irwin Lazar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> quoted an article saying "In less than 48 hours many of us will be installing Tiger OS-X and with it a brand new Safari browser that can read and display RSS feeds in a simple easy to understand manner. That upgrade while great for the consumers, could come as a bi

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-28 Thread Steve Sobol
Mark Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:16:36AM -0400, Steven J. Sobol wrote: > > > Any IP that a provider allows servers on should have > > distinctive, non-dynamic-looking DNS (and preferably be in a separate > > netblock from the dynamically-assigned IPs). >

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Sobol
Bill Stewart wrote: You could solve 90% of the problems that you perceive are being caused by unrestricted cable modem users by using blocklists to ignore traffic from them. Which would be great if cable/DSL providers offered some insight into which of their netblocks should be blocked and which s

Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

2005-04-27 Thread Steve Sobol
Owen DeLong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do ISPs owe this to their customers. They don't. (I would argue that they owe it to the rest of the Internet, but that argument is tangential to this discussion.) However, I'd like to add an additional data point: Those of us in .us have undoubtedl

Re: The "not long discussion" thread....

2005-04-26 Thread Steve Sobol
Jerry Pasker wrote: Steve Sobol replied with: I'm not going to enter into a long discussion with you. :) I'm just curious why you didn't restrict AXFR to certain IPs instead. And I'm posting back to NANOG: I did. And I had router ACLs doing the same thing. Allow to hosts t

Re: Verizon Offering Naked DSL in Northeast...

2005-04-18 Thread Steve Sobol
Andy Johnson wrote: My speculation is that their billing/accounting system is based on a POTs number, and since these customers will not need one, they will have administrative errors managing accounts. Yeahbut. SBC was happy to assign me something that looks like a phone number, but wasn't, so

Re: New Outage Hits Comcast Subscribers

2005-04-14 Thread Steve Sobol
Peter John Hill wrote: I just don't want my wife to complain to me that she could not check her email because "the Internet was broken" Serious answer to a non-serious comment: The group that reads this mailing list can be assumed to be more technically savvy than most people, right? OK. So, I r

Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad.

2005-04-12 Thread Steve Sobol
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interestingly enough, the WRT54G is capable of > gigE. Heh. Didn't realize that. > > In this case, I do. It's a consumer product. > > One way to solve this problem, and recognize that many > IP network operators sell service to consumers as well > as peering, would

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Sobol
Dean Anderson wrote: BTW, Steve, have you learned how to read mail headers yet? Long ago. I blocked one address, you sent from another, I blocked that one too. The first one was, IIRC, the primary MX for your domain. I don't think the second one was set up in DNS at all. I didn't read any mail h

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Sobol
Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is rather odd, if you agree that SORBS is a bunch of nutjobs, where's > the mudslinging? [ snip ] > > > Violation of trust on other projects is another. e.g. Exactis V. MAPS, > > > Several MAPS employees working for well-known spammer Scott Ric

Re: Dear Linksys: Your broken WET54GS5 makes me sad.

2005-04-11 Thread Steve Sobol
just me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies. Apparently I was mistaken when I thought that other > network operators might be interested in saving themselves the time > and money of buying a broken piece of network equipment, which the > manufacturer won't support. Unless the Linksys ro

Re: Cisco to merge with Nabisco

2005-04-01 Thread Steve Sobol
"Church, Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Incorrectly chosen switching path can now result in lost packets AND > indigestion. I wonder how they're going to integrate Chips Ahoy into the existing Cisco lineup. Nabisco always used to advertise that Chips Ahoy has far more chips than any of the

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Sobol
Bill Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > regular basis, I imagine regulation will happen, especially if ISPs keep > trying to inhibit consumer choices. There's a fine line between "inhibiting consumer choices" and "ensuring that you don't end up spending more money than you're collecting for the

Re: Vonage Hits ISP Resistance

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Sobol
Bill Nash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find this to be entertaining, since as a VOIP consumer, I'm reimbursing > my ISP for the cost of the traffic as part of my monthly tithe. Not proportional to the potential cost of providing the service. I have no idea what my cable company pays for the

Re: sorbs.net

2005-03-16 Thread Steve Sobol
"Hannigan, Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Third and finally, if you are really not a spammer, or you are truly reformed, > de-listing is relatively easy. You donate US$50 to a charity or trust approved > by, and not connected with, SORBS for each spam received relating to the > listing (T

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

2005-03-06 Thread Steve Sobol
Gary E. Miller wrote: Does anyone actually know anyone that has actually used the V-Chip? *raising hand* Got children, y'know. :) Anything other than TV-Y, TV-Y7, or TV-PG, along with the movie ratings of approximately the same stripe, require Mom or Dad to enter our four-digit PIN before the cab

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Sobol
Daniel Senie wrote: Is the proper configuration or proper examples the responsibility of sendmail developers, those packaging sendmail with systems, or those who deploy the software? The correct answer is "those who deploy the software," regardless of whether it's a mail server, firewall, IP rou

Re: Why do so few mail providers support Port 587?

2005-02-15 Thread Steve Sobol
Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: What benefit, exactly, do you see to allowing unauthenticated mail submission on a different port than the default SMTP port? The relevant RFC says that port 587 must be used for authenticated connections ONLY. Similarly, what harm, exactly, do you see to allowing authe

Re: Registrars serve no useful purpose

2005-01-22 Thread Steve Sobol
Joe Rhett wrote: What if a company doesn't want to deal with any registrar? What if they just want to register their domain name and have it stay registered. I really can't think of any domain name registrant that this statement doesn't apply to -- even the spammers. The purpose is so that someo

Re: Regarding panix.com

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Sobol
Matthew Sullivan wrote: What sort of support would you give a not-for-profit Org such as SORBS.net or an Org such as Spamhaus.org if our domains were hijacked maliciously (or not)? Shouldn't matter, should it? -- JustThe.net - Apple Valley, CA - http://JustThe.net/ - 888.480.4NET (4638) Steve

Re: Regarding panix.com

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Sobol
Bruce Tonkin wrote: Most major registrars and ICANN have direct contacts into the technical parts of Melbourne IT.I received notification from several parties via email (but I don't read email 24 hours a day). Bruce, Offlist, I have already given you some suggestions that I hope will be helpful

Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!

2005-01-18 Thread Steve Sobol
Paul G wrote: ime, the act of defining 'emergency' does not provoke compliance therewith. Of course. It must be enforced. How, I'm not sure at this point (and not being an employee of a company acting as registrar or registry, I'm not sure I'd be able to offer any constructive suggestions as to h

Re: Panix.com should be back.

2005-01-16 Thread Steve Sobol
Majid Farid wrote: I see that DNS changes has been reverted http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=panix.com I have also contacted our Customer owner of ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk [panix.com] (142.46.200.67) they have assured me they will remove the DNS config as well. Ok... can you tell u

Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!

2005-01-16 Thread Steve Sobol
Adrian Chadd wrote: I agree they should have 24/7 support. Just remember that, as an example, Melbourne IT has probably two orders of magnitude more clients than you. A 24x7 pager service would attract a /lot/ of "Emergencies" and as such they'd have to consider running at least a muppet level call

Re: Regarding panix.com

2005-01-16 Thread Steve Sobol
Bruce Tonkin wrote: Hello All, Melbourne IT restored the nameservers and contact details associated with this name first thing this morning (Monday in Melbourne, Australia). And the lack of response on a weekend is completely inappropriate. I'm glad you finally decided to do something, but there i

Re: Proposed list charter/AUP change?

2005-01-05 Thread Steve Sobol
Hannigan, Martin wrote: To me, it's not a productive effort to micro-manage(or MERIT) the list via the FAQ. The FAQ is a traditional and historically acceptable method of answering questions that are bound to come up repeatedly as a primary result of new participants from any source. Micro-manag

RE: Qwest Transit

2002-04-03 Thread Steve Sobol
ise person once said, don't put all your routes in one >pipe. I wouldn't touch Qwest, based on the Enron issue, if nothing else. -- Steve Sobol, Proud Native of the Great Frozen City of Cleveland, Ohio http://www.Cleveland.OH.US/ http://www.TravelCleveland.com/ http://www.LakeCou

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