Re: Unbelievable Spam.

2004-02-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 2 Feb 2004, Paul Vixie wrote: the spammers have nothing to fear from you, or us, or me, or anybody. with the incredible number of bottomfeeders and antivirus companies polluting the econsystem with their own various get-rich-quick schemes, there's no way to tell the difference between

Re: Unbelievable Spam.

2004-02-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004, Brian Bruns wrote: They are bold, and don't seem to fear anyone. You can keep killing them, and they don't learn. That's because nobody's _killing_ them. There is an anecdotal story of some russian ISP actually sending few toughs to beat up some HACK0R DUD3Z. That ISP

Re: Misplaced flamewar... WAS: RE: in case nobody else noticed it, there was a mail worm released today

2004-01-30 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Actually IMO putting all their crap in their own dir is a feature rather than a bug. I really hate the way unix apps just put their stuff all over the place so it's an incredible pain to get rid of it again. Putting all crap in the working

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-19 Thread Vadim Antonov
Criminal hackers _are_ stupid (like most criminals) for purely economical reasons: those who are smart can make more money in various legal ways, like by holding a good job or running their own business. Hacking into other people's computers does not pay well (if at all). Those who aren't in

Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

2004-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
I can project a nearly infinite rate of growth in my personal income when I deposit a $3.95 rebate check. It's a matter of defining the sampling period. The truth is, that kind of creative statistics is exactly what allowed Worldcom (and the rest of the telecom) to get into the deep pile of

Re: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Randy Bush wrote: i was helping get the link up into kacst (their nsf equivalent) in ryadh back in '94, and a rather grownup friend there, Abdulaziz A. Al Muammar, who had his phd from the states and all that, explained it to me something like this way. yes, to a

RE: interesting article on Saudi Arabia's http filtering

2004-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, H. Michael Smith, Jr. wrote: For the record... I have first hand knowledge that KSA's filtering is not too effective. Good :) The more people are exposed to humanity of the Great Satan, the less they're likely to tolerate their own fanatics and zealots. --vadim

Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

2004-01-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Getting to 1mpps on a single router today will probably be hard. However, I've been considering implementing a clustered router architecture, should scale pps more or less linearly based on number of PCs or routing nodes involved. I'm not sure if

Re: PC Routers (was Re: /24s run amuck)

2004-01-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
He also said that Internet is growing by 1000% a year. In fact I think that it is an extremely bad idea to use clusters of enterprise boxes to build a global network. --vadim On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Randy Bush wrote: On the topic of PC routers, I've fully given in to the zen of Randy

RE: /24s run amuck

2004-01-13 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Michael Hallgren wrote: On Jan 13, 2004, at 6:33 AM, Michael Hallgren wrote: Unfortunately, I've seen Peering Policies which require things like Must announce a minimum of 5,000 prefixes. :( Wonderful... mh Easy to fix by changing to covering N million

re: This may be stupid but

2003-11-13 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Don Mills wrote: But it would be a tragic mistake on anyone's behalf to pre-assume that all those letters means I don't know what I am talking about. That's stereotyping, isn't it? Don (take it as a good-spirited needling, please) I'd like to point out that this

Re: This may be stupid but

2003-11-13 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Don Mills wrote: Nah. I'm just a quick study and it's better than drinking all weekend. Oh, you _do_ have weekends :) --vadim

Re: This may be stupid but..

2003-11-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
Now, the problem of finding a good recruiter is substituted for the problem of finding a good engineer :) The trade-off is good only if you're planning to hire dozens of engineers, considering monetary costs of such arrangement. Even better, if you're creating a large org, get a headhunter on

Re: This may be stupid but..

2003-11-08 Thread Vadim Antonov
The only problem - they have no clue about the profession they're recruiting for and tend to judge applicants not by them saying reasonable things but by their self-assuredness and by keywords in resume. Recruiters are only good for initial screening and attracting applicants, and in this

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
Ahem. Many of us are Star Trek experts, and it will take a LOT more than this to get people to wear a red shirt. A red EFF t-shirt (as a sign of recent donation) would be a good choice :) --vadim

RE: Another DNS blacklist is taken down

2003-09-24 Thread Vadim Antonov
RBLs Sounds like a great application for P2P. Perhaps, but it also seems like moving an RBL onto a P2P network would making poisoning the RBL far too easy... Andrew USENET, PGP-signed files, 20 lines in perl. --vadim

RE: Blacklisting: obvious P2P app

2003-09-24 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote: Each mailserver could keep a cryptographically verified list, the list is distributed via some P2P mechanism, and DoS directed at the 'source' of the service only interrupts updates, and only does so until the source slips an updated

Re: Verisign Responds

2003-09-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Randy Bush wrote: some engineers think that all social and business problems can be solved by technical hacks. Dunno about some engineers, but engineers in general can do a lot to avoid creation of many problems in the first place. This wildcard flop is a perfect

Re: Root Server Operators (Re: What *are* they smoking?)

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, John Brown wrote: speaking as a shareholder of Verisign, I'm NOT HAPPY with the way they handled this wildcard deal, nor am I happy about them doing it all. As a *shareholder* I'd cast my vote that they *remove* it. You have no control over operations of the company.

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
If we take a step back, we could say that the whole Verisign incident demonstrated pretty clearly that the fundamental DNS premise of having no more than one root in the namespace is seriously wrong. This is the fallacy of universal classification so convincingly trashed by J.L.Borges in The

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, [ISO-8859-1] Mathias Krber wrote: If we take a step back, we could say that the whole Verisign incident demonstrated pretty clearly that the fundamental DNS premise of having no more than one root in the namespace is seriously wrong. This is the fallacy of

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
! --vadim On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David G. Andersen wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 02:50:51AM -0700, Vadim Antonov quacked: In fact, we do have an enormously useful and popular way of doing exactly that - this is called search engines and bookmarks. What is needed is an infrastructure

Re: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the goal were unique identification, MAC addresses would do just fine. No need for DNS. MAC addresses are not without authority delegation. The IEEE is the ultimate authority in said case. Yep... But have you seen any controversy about

RE: News of ISC Developing BIND Patch

2003-09-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote: In fact, you could just use an RSA public key as the identifier directly. This is likely not the best algorithm, but it's certainly an existence proof that such algorithms can be devised without difficulty. In fact, I'm going to call

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
I'm going to hack my BIND so it'll discard wildcard RRs in TLDs, as a matter of reducing the flood of advertising junk reaching my desktop. I think BIND resolver developers would do everyone a service by adding an option having the same effect. Thank you, VeriSign, I will never do business

Re: BMITU

2003-09-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
Communigate Pro is not a Windows mail server... It runs on nearly everything; and can handle millions of accounts (it has extensive clustering support). Check their website: www.stalker.com for specs. --vadim On Thu, 4 Sep 2003, Robert Boyle wrote: At 11:02 AM 9/4/2003, you wrote: This

RE: What do you want your ISP to block today?

2003-09-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote: When you don't have liability you don't have to worry about quality. What we need is lemon laws for software. That would destroy the free software community. You could try to exempt free software, but then you would just succeed in

RE: What do you want your ISP to block today?

2003-09-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, David Schwartz wrote: this will be my last reply. David, since all your arguments are variations on You think you know better than anyone else what they need (whereby you, supposedly, extoll virtues of a system which you don't yourself think is the best one) I do concur

Re: What do you want your ISP to block today?

2003-09-01 Thread Vadim Antonov
When you don't have liability you don't have to worry about quality. What we need is lemon laws for software. --vadim On 1 Sep 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: ... Micr0$0ft's level of engineered-in vulnerabilities and wanton disregard for security in the name of features. ... i can't see

Re: Hey, QWEST clean up your network

2003-08-29 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Randy Bush wrote: when folk want to pay $50/mb, how much clue do we think isps can pay for, especially to deal with peak clue loads such as this last week or two? yes, money talks. but in many ways. Doesn't work this way. It is much better to have one clueful guy

Re: relays.osirusoft.com

2003-08-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I wouldn't recommend this. If you have two DNS servers on different addresses, everyone can talk to #2 if #1 doesn't answer. I noticed that many Windoze mail servers don't bother to check the second server if the primary's dead. --vadim

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

2003-08-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Matthew Crocker wrote: Shouldn't customers that purchase IP services from an ISP use the ISPs mail server as a smart host for outbound mail? Shouldn't. There are privacy implications of having mail to be recorded (even temporarily) at someone's disk drive. --vadim

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

2003-08-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003, Matthew Crocker wrote: If your ISP violates your privacy or has a privacy policy you don't like, find another one. How do I know that? As a hobby, I'm running a community site for an often misunderstood sexual/lifestyle minority. Most of patrons would be very unhappy

Re: Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
It should be pointed put that the ISPs have their share of blame for the quick-spreading worms, beause they neglected very simple precautions -- such as giving cutomers pre-configured routers or DSL/cable modems with firewalls disabled by default (instead of the standard end-user, let only

Re: East Coast outage?

2003-08-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Use hydrogen. One solar panel (which will last forever unless you drop something on it) can split H2O into H and O. Solar panels do not last forever. In fact, they degrade rather quickly due to the radiation damage to the semiconductor (older thin

Re: East Coast outage?

2003-08-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Sat, 16 Aug 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: Maybe we could attach the packets to hot air balloons and send them with the wind? This seems to be a promising idea, given that the high-tech industry is already adept at producing immeasureable quantities of hot air. --vadim

Re: East Coast outage?

2003-08-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 15 Aug 2003, Scott A Crosby wrote: I also think that its hard to appreciate the stability differences between shipping power a few hundred feet and shipping power 1000 miles. It looks like that long-distance shipping is the root cause of the half-dozen major outages over the past 30

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 5 Aug 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: i'd like to discuss these, or see them discussed. networks have edges, even if some networks are edge networks and some are backbone networks. bcp38 talks about various kinds of loose rpf, for example not accepting a source for which there's no corresponding

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-09 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Spoofed packets are harder to trace to the source than non-spoofed packets. Knowing where a malicious packet is very important to the this is patently incorrect: www.secsup.org/Tracking/ has some information you might want to review.

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-01 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote: There is nothing in C which guarantees that code will be unreliable or insecure. Lack of real strong typing, built-in var-size strings (so the compiler can actually optimize string ops) and uncontrollable pointer operations is enough to guarantee that

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-31 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 31 Jul 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: the anti-nat anti-firewall pure-end-to-end crowd has always argued in favour of every host for itself but in a world with a hundred million unmanaged but reprogrammable devices is that really practical? Not everything could be hidden behind a firewall,

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-31 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 31 Jul 2003, Petri Helenius wrote: What we need is a new programming paradigm, capable of actually producing secure (and, yes, reliable) software. C and its progeny (and program now, test never lifestyle) must go. I'm afraid it'll take laws which would actually make software

Re: Hollywood plot: Attack critical infrastructure while Presidentis in town

2003-07-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: But the President's movements creates its own vulnerabilities for the rest of the critical infrastructures nearby. If you know the President will be in the area (the FAA posts advance notice to airman)... First of all it creates vulnerabilities for

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened

2003-07-02 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Oh, joy -- more spam instead of telemarketers. Joy, actually, since e-mail is not prone to giving unsolicited wake-up calls to those of us who live graveyard shift. --vadim

RE: Router crash unplugs 1m Swedish Internet users

2003-06-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Jim Deleskie wrote: One router and it takes there entire network off-line... Maybe someone needs a Intro to Networks 101 class. No matter what kind of technology or design you have there are always kinds of faults which may bring the entire system down. The problem is

RE: IPv6

2003-06-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
Well, since adding a simple option to IPv4 header would solve all address space problems w/o any need to change core routing infrastructure (unlike introduding v6) - I see little need to go for an entirely new L3 protocol. --vadim On Sun, 15 Jun 2003, Deepak Jain wrote: 1) Is IPV4

Re: IPv6

2003-06-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Nick Hilliard wrote: At least there is general consensus among pretty much everyone - with the exception of a small number of cranks - that IPv6 is good. Now I'm officially a crank because i fail to see why IPv6 is any better than slightly perked up IPv4 - except for

Re: AC/AC power conversion for datacenters

2003-06-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
Here's a 3KW one for E389: http://www.taunus-transformatoren.de/transformers/transformers_110_120_220_230_240.htmlMatthew Zito [EMAIL PROTECTED], (Actually, you don't need a two-coil transformer - a one-coil transformer with a tap in the middle will do, and those may be even cheaper). Note

Re: AC/AC power conversion for datacenters

2003-06-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Vadim Antonov wrote: http://www.pfsc-ice.com/bbo/b/magnet/get_a_110_220_voltage_transformer_11.htm 2KW - for less than $100 ... enough for 8.5 Amp at 230V. --vadim

Re: NJ: Red alert? Stay home, await word

2003-03-19 Thread Vadim Antonov
There's only thing worse than government full of idiots: government full of scared idiots. --vadim On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, J.A. Terranson wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Jeff Wasilko wrote: http://www.southjerseynews.com/issues/march/m031603e.htm If the nation escalates to red alert,

Re: Route Supression Problem

2003-03-12 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Randy Bush wrote: You need at least three flaps to trigger dampening. i guess you really need to look at that pdf. randy Better Algorithms -- http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/flap-rfc.txt http://www.kotovnik.com/~avg/flap-rfc.ps I didn't publish that one because I

Re: Port 445 issues (was: Port 80 Issues)

2003-03-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
I'm just waiting for hakerz to finally figure out that having the port number a hash of host address will effectively make port-based notch filtering useless. Usin On Sun, 9 Mar 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: Blocking ports in the core doesn't stop stuff from spreading. There are too many

Re: BGP to doom us all

2003-02-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
Thank you very much, but no. DNS (and DNSSEC) relies on working IP transport for its operation. Now you effectively propose to make routing (and so operation of IP transport) dependent on DNS(SEC). Am I the only one who sees the problem? --vadim PS. The only sane method for routing info

RE: VoIP over IPsec

2003-02-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
Well, sloppy thinking breeds complexity -- what I dislike about standards commitees (IETF/IESG included) is that they always sink to the lowest common denominator of the design talent or competence of its participants. In fact, a method to encrypt small parcels of data efficiently is well-known

Re: VoIP over IPsec

2003-02-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Stephen Sprunk wrote: It also allows precomputation of the key stream, adding nearly zero latency/jitter to the actual packet processing. You fail to note that this requires precomputing and storing a keystream for every SA on the encrypting device, which often

Re: Cascading Failures Could Crash the Global Internet

2003-02-06 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, N. Richard Solis wrote: The main cause of AC disruption is a power plant getting out of phase with the rest of the power plants on the grid. This is typically a result of sudden load change (loss of transmission line, short, etc) changing the electromagnetic drag in

Re: routing between provider edge and CPE routers

2003-01-29 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mike Bernico wrote: We currently use an IGP to route between our distribution routers and the CPE routers we manage. So, if customers bounce your IGP churns away? And customers have access to your IGP data

RE: routing between provider edge and CPE routers

2003-01-29 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Mike Bernico wrote: Is there someplace I can find tidbits of information like this? I haven't been alive decades so I must have missed that memo. Other than this list I don't know where to find anyone with lots of experience working for a service provider. Well, this

RE: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Eric Germann wrote: Not to sound to pro-MS, but if they are going to sue, they should be able to sue ALL software makers. And what does that do to open source? A law can be crafted in such a way so as to create distinction between selling for profit (and assuming

Re: uunet

2003-01-20 Thread Vadim Antonov
I have a suggestion for UUNET's backbone engineering folks: Please, create a fake customer ID and publish it, so outside folks could file trouble reports regarding routing issues within UUNET. --vadim On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Scott Granados wrote: What's interesting is that I just tried to

Re: FW: Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflectiveattacks?

2003-01-20 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: I was refering specifically to end user workstations. For example home machines on dial up or broadband connections. A lot of broadband providers already prohibit running servers and block

Re: Is there a line of defense against Distributed Reflective attacks?

2003-01-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
Do we need te equivalent of a dog bite law for computers. If your computer attacks another computer, the owner is responsible. File a police report, and the ISP will give the results of the *57 trace to the local police. The police can then put down the rabid computer, permanently.

Re: FYI: Anyone seen this?

2003-01-15 Thread Vadim Antonov
This is not entirely hoax. I know for sure (first-hand) that such actions were contemplated by at least some recording companies. --vadim On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Marshall Eubanks wrote: The feeling in the music community is that this is almost certainly a hoax. Of course, RIAA apparently

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: The better way of dealing with the problem of bogus routes is strong authentication of the actual routing updates, whith key being allocated together with the address block. Solves unused address space reclaimation problem, too - when the

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Harsha Narayan wrote: Key databases: Using cryptography to authenticate routing updates gets messy very soon. Then, there will again be the same problem of the Public Key Infrastucture not getting updated or something like that. Hard to do it right, yes, but not

Re: Spam. Again.. -- and blocking net blocks?

2002-12-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Barry Shein wrote: The only solution to spam is to start charging for email (perhaps with reasonable included minimums if that calms you down for some large set of you) and thus create an economic incentive for all parties involved. Absolutely unrealistic...

Re: Operational Issues with 69.0.0.0/8...

2002-12-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Harsha Narayan wrote: Using cryptography to authenticate routing updates gets messy very soon. Then, there will again be the same problem of the Public Key Infrastucture not getting updated or something like that. It would require a PKI and also require every

Re: Spanning tree melt down ?

2002-12-01 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: This is a bit of culture shock for most ISPs, because an ISP exists to serve the network, and proper design is at least understood, if not always adhered to. In the corporate world, however, the network and support staff are an expense to be

Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows

2002-11-27 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It depends which exchange point is hit. There are a couple of buildings in London which if hit would have a disasterous affect on UK and European peering. Why hit buildings when removing relatively small number of people will render Internet

Re: Cyberattack FUD

2002-11-22 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Schwartz wrote: Suppose, for example, we'd had closed cockpit doors. The 9/11 terrorists would have threatened the lives of the passengers and crew to induce the pilots to open the doors. The pilots would have opened the doors because the reasoning until

Re: Bin Laden Associate Warns of Cyberattack

2002-11-19 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Richard Irving wrote: To Paraphrase the -OLD- KGB: Quick Comrade, we will protect you, sign here What ? You want to be Safe, Comrade, don't you ? s/Comrade/Citizen/ Naive :) They didn't have to ask to sign anything - you had to, to get a better job,

Re: Even the New York Times withholds the address

2002-11-19 Thread Vadim Antonov
Just to keep it off-topic :) The kinetic water-based accumulating stations actually do exist, though they use elevated reservoirs to store the water. The water is pumped up during off-peak hours, and then electricity is generated during peaks. This is not common, though, because most energy

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
I definitely would NOT want to see my doctor over a video link when I need him. The technology is simply not up to providing realistic telepresense, and a lot of diagnostically relevant information is carried by things like smell and touch, and little details. So telemedicine is a poor

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jere Retzer wrote: Maybe it is a function of the origin and destination location + network. Since Portland is not a top 25 market our service has never been very good that's why we started an exchange Yep, Intenet service quality is very uneven; and it does not seem to

Re: PAIX

2002-11-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jere Retzer wrote: It's potentially even more important with elderly shut-ins, because bringing them in can be difficult and expensive and their immune systems are typically weaker so you should try to minimize their exposure to people with contagious diseases. What

Re: PAIX

2002-11-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Jere Retzer wrote: Some thoughts: - Coast-to-coast guaranteed latency seems too low in most cases that I've seen. Not calling CEOs and marketers liars but the real world doesn't seem to do as well as the promises. As VOIP takes off local IP exchanges will

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, David Diaz wrote: 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the number of alternative paths routing algorithms wil lhave to consider. Anything like that would require serious

Re: PAIX

2002-11-14 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: VA 2) There is a lack of a killer app requiring peering every 100 sq Km. VA VA Peering every 100 sq km is absolutely infeasible. Just think of the VA number of alternative paths routing algorithms wil lhave to consider. VA VA Anything like

Re: BGP security in practice

2002-11-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: Time for a new metaphor, methinks. There's one. Defensive networking :) --vadim

Re: More federal management of key components of the Internet needed

2002-10-24 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Alan Hannan wrote: I don't understand how giving the US federal government management control of key components of the Internet will make it more secure. It worked for airline security. Yeah... removing shoes and randomly searching peace activists while allowing

Re: Cogent service

2002-09-21 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Joe Abley wrote: On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 06:40:56PM -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote: This is all obvious stuff, of course. However, the derived rule of thumb long traceroute bad, short traceroute good is the kind of thing that can induce marketing people to require

software routers (was: Cogent service)

2002-09-21 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: If you think you can make a gigabit router with PC parts, feel free. You may be surprised to learn that BBN folks did practically that (different CPU) with their 50 Gbps box (MGR). They had OC-48C line cards and used Alpha 21164 CPU with pretty

Re: Cogent service

2002-09-20 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Fri, 20 Sep 2002, Stephen Stuart wrote: Regarding CPU cycles for route lookups: Back in the mid-1990s, route lookups were expensive. There was a lot of hand-wringing, in fact, about how doing route lookups at every hop in larger and larger FIBs had a negative impact on end-to-end

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
herecy Or unless we design a network which does not rely on good will of its users for proper operation. /herecy --vadim On Tue, 10 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Most spam-fighting efforts on the technical side make the basic assumption that spam has similar characteristics to a

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Or we throw out SMTP and adopt a mail protocol that requires the sender to provide some credentials that can't be faked. Then known spammers are easy to blacklist. The credentials that can't be faked is a rather hard to implement concept.

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Barry Shein wrote: And, although some won't like me saying this, having the technical community deal with these new criminals is a bit like sending the boy scouts after Al-Qaida. Unfortunately it's going to take a much harsher view of reality than maybe this regexp

Re: Unrecognised packets

2002-08-20 Thread Vadim Antonov
Q.931 is built into H.323 (a VOIP call control protocol). Bellhead standards are weird. Hope this helps... --vadim On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, cw wrote: I'm not familiar with all the protocols involved, so if my searches are correct Q.931 is an ISDN control protocol. This is odd because this

Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones

2002-08-17 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 17 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: Am I the only one who finds it odd that it's illegal to export crypto or supercomputers to certain nations or to sell such goods with prior knowledge that the goods are going to be resold in those nations... or even to travel to certain nations... yet no

RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-13 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002, Brad Knowles wrote: At 5:13 PM -0500 2002/08/13, Blake Fithen wrote: Is this sensitive info? Couldn't someone (theoretically) aim a beam at an unoccupied office and another at their objective office then filter out the 'noise'? Actually, I don't

Re: Microslosh vision of the future

2002-08-11 Thread Vadim Antonov
Microsoft already duped the software consumers into buying into fully proprietary software. Given the prevalent time horizon of average IT manager's thinking I fully expect Microsoft to get that stuff deployed before the poor saps start realizing they're being ripped. After that Microsoft

Re: endpoint liveness (RE: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sensean ymore?)

2002-08-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
It makes little sense to detect transient glitches. Any possible reaction on those glitches (i.e. withdrawal of exterior routes with subsequent reinstatement) is more damaging than the glitches themselves. --vadim On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Lane Patterson wrote: BGP keepalive/hold timers are

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-10 Thread Vadim Antonov
On 10 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote: why on god's earth would subsecond anything matter in a nonmilitary situation? Telemedicine, tele-robotics, etc, etc. Actually, there's a lot of cases when you want to have subsecond recovery. The current Internet routing technology is not up to the task;

Re: PSINet/Cogent Latency

2002-07-23 Thread Vadim Antonov
Some long long long time ago I wrote a small tool called snmpstatd. Back then Sprint management was gracious to allow me to release it as a public-domain code. It basically collects usage statistics (in 30-sec peaks and 5-min averages), memory and CPU utilization from routers, by

Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

2002-07-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Pedro R Marques wrote: From a point of view of routing software the major challenge of handling a 256k prefix list is not actually applying it to the received prefixes. The most popular BGP implementations all, to my knowledge, have prefix filtering algorithms that

Re: No one behind the wheel at WorldCom

2002-07-16 Thread Vadim Antonov
I would still contend that the number 1 issue is how you do express the policy to the routing code. One could potentially attempt to recognise the primary key is a route-map/policy-statement and compile it as you suggest. It is an idea that ends up being tossed up in the air frequently,

Re: All-optical networking Was: [Re: Notes on the Internet for Bell Heads]

2002-07-12 Thread Vadim Antonov
The discussion is certainly entertaining, but -- 1) All-optical networking is a bunch of nonsense until optical processing ability includes complete set of logic and storage elements - i.e. achieving fully blown optical computing. Rationale for the statement: telecom is

Re: Vixie puts his finger squarely on the key issue Re: Sprintpeering policy

2002-06-30 Thread Vadim Antonov
Oh, no. If anyone has illusions that politicos can somehow fix the situation, he ought to do serious reality check. If anything, they made that mess in the first place by creating ILEC monopolies and allowing those supposedly regulated monopilists to strange the emerging last mile broadband

RE: remember the diameter of the internet?

2002-06-18 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Martin, Christian wrote: Regarding the diameter of the Internet - I'm still trying to figure out why the hell anyone would want to have edge routers (instead of dumb TDMs) if not for inability of IOS to support large numbers of virtual interfaces. Same story goes

Re: China's cable firms fight deadly turf war

2002-05-30 Thread Vadim Antonov
eh, thats nothing. Try doing work in some of the buildings in NY without a Union card ;) Trade unions are schools of communism. - Vladimir Il'yich Lenin --vadim

Re: IP renumbering timeframe

2002-05-30 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: Yes, demonstrating things to ARIN is remarkably annoying. Demonstrating as in getting rid of monstrosities? :) --vadim

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