Re: YouTube IP Hijacking

2008-02-24 Thread Will Hargrave
t two hours to filter/turn down 17557 and remove the problem. I bet most of their peers say that's too slow, however :-) I generally don't assume malice when mere incompetence will suffice, but in the case of the Islamic world, they've proved themselves malicious towards the non

Re: Question on the topology of Internet Exchange Points

2008-02-16 Thread Will Hargrave
g diversity up to par - and > enable small ASes to grow. The converse can also be true - we have a number of members who use the IX fabric as a backup to their PIs with larger peering partners. If you lose a PI carrying a GE of traffic, where does that traffic go? -- Will Hargrave

Re: Somewhat bizarre scenario... (Fiber distance)

2007-12-16 Thread Will Hargrave
>> I've got a link that is testing out at 29.5db loss @ 1550. Its 107km. >> Shoot me a few suggestions? > http://www.finisar.com/product-113-1_Gigabit_CWDM_GBIC_with_APD_Receiver_(FTR-1619-xx) > 30dB. Will do more, we've done ~180km (~36dB) with one of those. h

Re: Interesting new dns failures

2007-05-25 Thread Will Hargrave
w being > proposed as a solution to the problem of identity (eg, .bank to > "solve" phishing). Unless there will be some level of enforcement > teeth, we will see the same situtaion that played out in 94/95: On a national level it's probably fairly easy to work this

Re: Colocation facilities in Britain

2007-05-17 Thread Will Hargrave
he South East of England, coupled with the same commercial growth requiring more colo space in itself. This is a situation which several colo operators seem well on the way to addressing. :-) Will

Re: Directly contacting ISP's (Was: How many others are nullrouting BT?)

2007-05-17 Thread Will Hargrave
Jo Rhett wrote: > Oh, yes. Because BCPs are so very good at solving problems. > I wanna go live in your happy universe. Because if BCP 38 were attended > to more than 40% of my job would be irrelevant, and 12-15% of our > traffic load would be reduced. > ...one of the only colocation providers w

Re: UK ISP threatens security researcher

2007-04-19 Thread Will Hargrave
Gadi Evron wrote: > "A 21-year-old college student in London had his internet service > terminated and was threatened with legal action after publishing details > of a critical vulnerability that can compromise the security of the ISP's > subscribers." > > I happen to know the guy, and I am sadd

Re: Thoughts on increasing MTUs on the internet

2007-04-12 Thread Will Hargrave
r l2/l3 VPNs? The other technology which sees people deploying jumbos out there is storage. Selling storage as well as transit over the IX? It could happen :-) -- Will Hargrave [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Director LONAP Ltd

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

2007-01-07 Thread Will Hargrave
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to admit that I have no idea how BT charges > ISPs for wholesale ADSL. If there is indeed some kind > of metered charging then Internet video will be a big > problem for the business model. They vary, it depends on what pricing model has been sel

Re: Urgent need for bandwidth in Chiswick/London

2006-11-02 Thread Will Hargrave
us, and so on are onsite and will be able to deliver service reasonably quickly. This is all assuming fibre, of course - you didn't say just how much bandwidth you need. SDSL (don't forget multipair bonded) can be delivered on a much shorter timescale (~2 weeks) and may be an acceptabl

Re: Boeing's Connexion announcement

2006-10-19 Thread Will Hargrave
g the AC 'myth') can check here http://www.seatguru.com/ - no idea how accurate it is. Will

Re: kW Per Rack.

2006-09-14 Thread Will Hargrave
favourable. I'm not an expert but I think we reject heat directly outside (300KW plant) but they also have systems designed to exchanged directly into building chilled water. Will

Re: h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Will Hargrave
bit, and has been suppressed due to dampening in your neck of the woods. I did (and do) check on multiple ASs that I run and asked a few others to check, also checked looking glasses and so on. But anyway, it's back now, so nothing to see. Obviously a local problem of some sort. Will

h.gtld-servers.net offline...

2006-06-15 Thread Will Hargrave
=ematch&interval=1&prefix=192.54.112.0/24 Will

Re: Ebay Verification?

2005-12-28 Thread Will Hargrave
Mehgan Laveck wrote: [Ebay woes] There seem to be some thoughts as to akamai being the possible culprit, specifically as it interacts with Linux. I'm hoping a few of you Linux users out there will give it a shot, telnetting to port 80 on these IPs several times to see if you can

Re: Slightly OT: Redundant CPE Switching for DS3

2005-12-22 Thread will
"failure" in order to get it to automatically switch at the right time without causing more problems than you started with. http://www.rfparts.com/coaxial.html -- -Will :: AD6XL Orton :: http://www.loopfree.net/

Re: Peering VLANs and MAC addresses

2005-11-11 Thread Will Hargrave
or the operational efficacy of membership organisations like the LINX, and that is borne out by their willingness to join and put traffic across the exchanges. Will

Re: Level 3's side of the story

2005-10-08 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 12:41:21PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Given that at least part of JC Dill's comments were directly lifted from > an e-mail I sent him, I feel compelled to put them side by side. JC's > comments: IIRC, s/him/her/ w

Re: Address Space & ASN Allocation Process

2005-09-26 Thread Will Yardley
um allocation? Can my client approach RIR and > > request for a /23? > > If my client do procure a /23 how do they make make sure that this > > address space will be globally routable? They can't really make *sure* of it, any more than with any other prefix I think there is

Re: Hope this isnt a redundant question : Cisco IOS Netflow analysis mechanisms?

2005-09-26 Thread Will Yardley
our network) and information like that which will help > us with capacity planning. We are looking for suggestions if anyone has > any real-world knowledge of anything that would tell us for example: > > 8% of our traffic is destined to AS 2828 (XO communications) etc. I've found n

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 01:37:53PM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: > As best I can tell from ARIN documents, ISP still are supposed to SWIP > or use Rwhois for subassignments of /29 and greater. However, is this > still widely practiced these days? Especially among smaller ISPs? My understanding of th

Re: Blocking certain terrorism/porn sites and DNS

2005-08-18 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 01:50:08PM +0530, Abhishek Verma wrote: > I have a doubt which i am sure a lot of people in this list would be > able to help me with. > > There was news that terror groups like Al Qaida, etc. are using > internet to promote their terror links and these web sites provide

Re: Open Proxy list / DR discussion list.

2005-08-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 08:01:20PM +0100, Alice Stamping wrote: > - Is anyone maintaing a real-time list of known open web-proxies? I > run a small network hosting several forum sites, and I want to build > something I can query regularly (say, hourly or daily) that will let &g

Re: London: Mobile networks bear blast calls

2005-07-22 Thread Will Hargrave
two mobile networks I have phones on (O2 and 0range) between about 1345 and 1530BST. Saw no problems with landline PSTN, though. Will

URPF on small BGP-enabled customers?

2005-06-03 Thread will
;m surprised this hasn't happened to any of their other customers before now. Am I missing something obvious here? -- -Will :: AD6XL Orton :: http://www.loopfree.net/

Re: DNS requests and Bandwidth

2005-05-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 07:30:35PM +0300, aljuhani wrote: > Recently we've noticed some increase in server Bandwidth usage > and after using tcpdump, we were able to find the problem which > is a DNS server on the Internet sending many queries per second > to resolve MX , A records for that doma

Re: DOS attack tracing

2005-05-09 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 01:35:06PM -1000, Richard wrote: > We recently experienced several DOS attacks which drove our backbone > routers CPU to 100%. The routers are not under attack, but the > router just couldn't handle the traffic. There is a plan to upgrade > these routers. What kind of rou

Re: SMTP AUTH

2005-05-01 Thread Will Yardley
Is it time to break out the "Please do not feed the trolls" sign? Feeding 'em anyway... but *plonk* for Mr. Anderson. For those who are masochists, read on. On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 10:50:29PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: > But only 16 email clients (counting Netscape, Mozilla, and Firefox > sepa

Re: Load balance over multiple bgp feeds

2005-04-21 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 05:06:27PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 06:47:36PM -0500, Mike Hyde wrote: [ Sorry for the self-followup. ] > > I was wondering what everyone does to load balance over multiple > > bgp feeds. We currently have 5 bgp feeds with 2 pr

Re: Load balance over multiple bgp feeds

2005-04-21 Thread Will Yardley
27;ve generally been able to get surprisingly accurate results in terms of how much traffic to send out one link or another just by using route-maps and some simple netflow analysis, plus traceroute / ping. I don't know if Netflow will give you much information in terms of the best path, but it can

Re: grrr

2005-04-17 Thread Will Yardley
> boilerplate messages back. I have dealt with some real people at Ebay, and I will say that they are one of the few organizations that actually DOES try to do something about phishing scams etc. My experience is that they do read, and take action based on, spoof reports. w

Re: djbdns: An alternative to BIND

2005-04-09 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:14:14AM -0700, David Conrad wrote: > > Fortunately, if it is a religion, I am agnostic in the BIND vs. DJB war > since I work for a company that has created a product that could be > argued competes with both... :-). Didn't Nominum write BIND9, and doesn't / didn't i

Re: Known communities for AS174?

2005-03-22 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 02:52:20PM -0500, Adam Rothschild wrote: > On 2005-03-22-03:30:32, David Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 3. Communities controlling Cogents AS path prepending > > for customer routes on egress: > > > > community effect > > 174:3000 do not annou

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 12:29:09PM -0600, Kathryn Kessey wrote: > > They are going to create publicly accessible, highly available > database service of the all the world's porn sites and maintain it > with up to the minute data... with 100K. Right. Well maybe they're just trying to justify th

Re: Please Check Filters - BOGON Filtering IP Space 72.14.128.0/19

2005-01-20 Thread Will Hargrave
in (enterprise) production are *unmaintained*. These will have a variety of vulnerable, buggy or just plain crap IOS versions and no-one would've even considered upgrading for years. If filters depend on IOS upgrades then those filters are there to stay. ISPs will of course feed their rout

Re: I want my own IPs

2004-11-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0800, Philip Lavine wrote: > I have recently been turned down by ARIN for an address > block. I currently have 4 /24's from ISP's and would like IP > independence. How do I convince ARIN to give me a block -- /20 I > guess? The form I filled out does not make i

Re: Blackhole Routes

2004-09-30 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 02:15:49PM -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: > > It goes a little further than that these days. Folks are openly > > allowing customers to advertize routes with something lika a 666 > > community which will then be blackholed within their network. So if &g

Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?

2004-09-07 Thread Will Yardley
ave both posted here in the past, and are good escalation points if you can't get the problem resolved by emailing postmaster at aol or calling their postmaster number. Often, it will take a while to get a call back from someone if the postmaster team can't resolve your problem immediately

Re: Spammers Skirt IP Authentication Attempts

2004-09-06 Thread Will Yardley
p reduce bouncebacks due to spam and viruses with forged sender addresses. It can help make phishing scams more difficult to pull off. It makes it easier for someone to say "this domain will NEVER send any legitimate email traffic". Will spammers register tons of new domains, setting up SPF

Re: Testing procedures for new network implementation?

2004-08-11 Thread Will Hargrave
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:20:44AM -0400, Wayne Chow wrote: > We are in the process of planning for the upgrade of a 3Com network. > The new infrastructure will be comprised of 3Com 4950s with XRN and a dozen > stacks of 4400s. > What are the best practices of testing the new implemen

Re: Quick question about secondary addresses

2004-08-03 Thread Will Hargrave
he details of > why. Process switched? Can anyone offer a resource or more specific > information? One which hasn't been mentioned - DHCP will break horribly if the dhcp shared-subnets declarations don't match the multinetted subnets on the wire.

Re: CWDM or DWDM passive add/drop muxes

2004-07-28 Thread Will Hargrave
ility between GBICs and especially miniGBICs. Our next procurement will include some words about the kit's GBIC slots being vendor agnostic.

Re: Filtering network content (rev.)

2004-05-09 Thread Will Hargrave
ernet is increasingly integrated so will be done more centrally - I suppose in effect by the "service provider". > I'm assuming this question would mostly apply to European, Asian, or Middle > Eastern Internet access services... I think it's fair to say that cultural d

Re: remote reboot power strips

2004-04-19 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:24:29AM -0700, Christopher J. Wolff wrote: > > Last time I researched remote reboot power strips it seemed like most of the > power strips were garbage. Any recommendations for a solid performer would > be appreciated. Thank you. We've been pretty happy with the Bayt

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

2004-03-14 Thread Will Hargrave
rs are relunctant to develop. Scary thought. I'd say having a login system which identifies the user is considerably less difficult than maintaining a very extensive database of cable patches which will inevitably get out of date (think replacement of dead switches...) within a very short ti

Re: Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

2004-03-13 Thread Will Yardley
you're sending their way. By the way, w/r/t to the tiebreaker stuff, note that (on Cisco devices) if you don't have "bgp bestpath compare-routerid" set, the route that was received first will be preferred. This minimizes route-flap, but can cause weird shifts in your traffic patt

Re: Level3 issue in LA on 3/9 (was: AT&T Outage 01:25-01:50 AM EST)

2004-03-10 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:36:10AM -0800, Christopher McCrory wrote: > On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 11:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So at least I wasn't the only one that felt this. Did Level3 ever say > > what blew up on their network? > > > > Not yet. > > There was a small tremor at 18:59 foll

Re: possible L3 issues

2004-02-23 Thread Will Orton
t hop into their network (San Jose). I have my BGP session with them admin down for now as a result. sh ip bgp dampening flap-statistics regexp _3356_ on route-views.oregon-ix.net at about 14:30 PDT gave me the phone book -- -Will :: AD6XL Orton :: http://www.loopfree.net/

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:13:30PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 11:15:20 PST, Dave Crocker said: > > > what about port 25 blocking that is now done by many access providers? > > > this makes it impossible for mobile users, comin

Re: SMTP authentication for broadband providers

2004-02-10 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:42:29PM -0500, Dan Ellis wrote: > I'm looking for comments on whether this is generally seen as a positive > change or a waste of time (ie - will the next virus or worm gleam your > SMTP username and password from Outlook Express and use it to &g

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-25 Thread Will Hargrave
; L3 forwarding function (for access/distribution) for all normal purposes. ACLs are per-port and known to be buggy when operating on port numbers - in particular UDP ACLs match will match arbritary data when presented with a subsequent IP fragments (think NFS...) As pointed out in a similar threa

Re: Any 1U - 2U Ethernet switches that can handle 4K VLANs?

2004-01-25 Thread Will Hargrave
ng simultaneously, not only VLAN *IDs* in the full 4K range. I would check the Foundry Fastiron series - maybe the 4802. Everything I've read appears to indicate they support all 4096 vlans simultaneously, although you will of course want to verify this. Extreme also appear to support

Re: Contact from Google urgently needed

2004-01-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 03:04:02PM -0500, Eric L. Howard wrote: > At a certain time, now past [Jan.14.2004-01:36:08PM -0500], [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake > thusly: > > If anyone on the list is employed by Google please contact me ASAP. > > I've sent emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and haven't gotten a r

Re: One Wilshire building / Downtown LA power failure?

2004-01-13 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 05:07:04PM -0500, Colin Brown wrote: > any word on 1200 west 7th Street? I haven't noticed anything. Also spoke to someone over there and they mentioned the lights flickering for a second - however they are apparently not on generator power. -- "Since when is skepticism

Re: california quake

2003-12-22 Thread Will
We (AS 12273) had no wireline telco outages at all, and our colo provider (AS 14589 across town also in San Luis Obispo) went unscathed as well. Power was unstable for a few minutes but only very small parts of the city lost power for more than a few minutes, nothing the UPSes couldn't handle.

Re: RR/ATDN NYC

2003-11-23 Thread Will Yardley
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 11:25:22PM -0500, Charles Sprickman wrote: > The only two folks that I was not able to reach were Yahoo! and SBCGlobal. I've had good success reaching Yahoo based on the contact information in the Arin whois; called the number on there, and got through to a real person fa

Re: AOL E.mail issues..

2003-10-18 Thread Will Yardley
oesn't mind my quoting this here): This is, in fact, a block of suspected spam; the code will be changed shortly to be more descriptive. I have noticed this error with some apparently non-bulk and legitimate mail recently. AOL's postmaster team has gotten a lot more respon

Re: Tomatoes for Verisign at NANOG 29

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 03:03:44PM -0400, Andy Dills wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2003, Scott Bradner wrote: > > > Dan and Owen, I nominate you two for the tomato acquisition and > > > distribution committee. > > lets not > > > > tomatoes != knowledge (nor are an indicator of same) > Nope, they're a

Re: Site Finder

2003-10-16 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 02:08:41PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > I've been thinking that there should be a new type of > record introduced to be application specific for HTTP, just as > MX only applies to smtp. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is basically what SRV records (rfc2782) are intended

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:24:08PM -0700, Steve Feldman wrote: > On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > The one that pisses me off more is > > > > http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top > From the bottom of those CNET articles: > Contact us: htt

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 05:53:04PM -0700, JC Dill wrote: > At 07:17 AM 10/4/2003, St. Clair, James wrote: > > I would add that what you perceive as a "diverse group" is still a > >realtively small sub-set of all the internet operations. > > Be that as it may, this group is *anything* but "close

Re: Foundry BigIron series

2003-09-23 Thread Will Yardley
e C company, but I was trying like hell to replace Foundry with them before I left. The only disclaimer being that they may have gotten better lately, but I wouldn't bet a network on it. The one good thing they have is a great price point. But as an engineer you will pay for it in other ways.

Re: Foundry BigIron series

2003-09-23 Thread Will Yardley
I've gotten some really useful responses off list. Sorry for the extra noise, but I'm going to summarize the responses to the list later today (for the archives)... I'm removing names, email addresses, company names and other identifying stuff in case anyone doesn't want to be quoted publicly, bu

Foundry BigIron series

2003-09-23 Thread Will Yardley
We're considering switching to Foundry BigIrons (probably the 4000, as opposed to Cisco 6500 series switches. We're currently using 7206VXRs). Anyone have opinions (on or off list) on this product? Looking through the archives, I don't notice any discussions of this since about 2001 [1]. (http://

Re: bind 9.2.3rc3 successful

2003-09-23 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 02:35:48AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: > Thought I'd mention that I helped setup BIND 9.2.3rc3 on a yellowdog > linux powercomputing machine tonight. It worked. And the mail queues > began clearing out. Just for an oddball success report. We've been using th

Re: blocking AS30060

2003-09-16 Thread Will Yardley
egexp _30060$ > >Network Next HopMetric LocPrf Weight Path > > *>i12.158.80.0/24 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 305100 0 1239 7018 26134 > > 30060 ? *>i64.94.110.0/24 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 305100 0 1239 > > 7018 26134 30060 ? > > >

Re: 157.112.0.0/16 ARIN info updated, AT&T still announcing /16

2003-09-11 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 12:32:58PM -0400, John Payne wrote: > --On Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:52 AM -0400 Kai Schlichting > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> From the [Hijacked] list: >>> The ARIN information has been updated to have up-to-date contact info for >>> the original owner, the ori

Re: CalPOP contact? HTTP CONNECT scanning

2003-09-04 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Sep 04, 2003 at 05:29:17PM -0400, Kai Schlichting wrote: > On 9/3/2003 at 8:17 PM, "Jeroen Massar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As people are complaining all around about ISP's, > > here is my small question. Who has a _working_ contact at > > "CalPOP" (216.240.128.0/19 and others). It

Re: London Power outage

2003-08-29 Thread Will Hargrave
On Thursday 28 August 2003 22:00, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > I saw it on CNN but it sounds like it wasnt as bad as they wanted to make > out.. frmo what I was told none of the major colos which are all in the > East lost utility and I dont know about stuff in the South which is where > the power w

Re: Tier-1 without their own backbone?

2003-08-27 Thread Will Yardley
> probably a low-life, bottom feeding scum sucking spammer who will > burn in hell. NO addresses at this domain EVER want to hear from you. > > What part of that don't you understand? > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Message rejected by recipient. I believe this particul

Re: Hijacked email

2003-08-20 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:13:58PM -0700, Will Yardley wrote: > > We're seeing a LOT of these today probably in the thousands per > second. Eep - sorry for the annoying self-followup, but that should read "thousands per minute" (and that during peak hours) -- it

Re: Hijacked email

2003-08-20 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:28:27AM -0400, Omachonu Ogali wrote: > > For our Postfix viewers out there... > > header_checks: > /^X-MailScanner: Found to be clean$/REJECT You're infected, but you probably > won't see this message anyway. Of course, this will al

Re: [connie.davis@mail.internetseer.com: answerpointe.cctec.com]

2003-08-14 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:32:04AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Has anyone else gotten one of these? It appears they are trolling > a Nanog archive on the web and sending these out to posters. *sigh* > Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Received: from internetseer.com (mail9.internetseer.com

Re: Proper Protocol for Dealing with Unresponsive Contacts?

2003-08-08 Thread Will Yardley
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:13:25AM -0400, Patrick Muldoon wrote: > What is the proper way to deal with a company that is unresponsive to > any form of contact. IE they have outdated information on their ip > assignments, bounce every piece of e-mail that I send? (including > postmaster@ which is

Re: abuse case management

2003-08-01 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 11:08:18AM +0200, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > Is there an abuse case management system as freeware somewhere, > something like all the ticket/case handling packages out there, but > more specifically aimed at abuse/complaint handling. I googled some > but couldnt find any.

Re: Its not just Spam and DDOS anymore (was Re: OT: Re: User negligence?)

2003-07-28 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:56:01AM +, Peter Gray wrote: > On the subject of host security issues and spam, try doing a search of the > Usenet archive for '"Net Access Corporation" spam'. You get 328 results. > And those are just the spams which people have traced to NAC, never mind > the

Re: Elan.net/Bizcom/William/Scam

2003-07-24 Thread Will Yardley
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 03:27:55AM +, Mike Jones wrote: > McBurnett, Jim writes: > > Mike, > > Have you sent this to ARIN? > > Just Curious... > I CC'ed ARIN and Saavis on that post as well. The ARIN handles for both networks appear to be valid. While I'm not going to rise to the flameba

Re: An A record is an MX record and is a missing MX....

2003-04-03 Thread Will Yardley
t; > Since then I have learned that some MTA's will look for an A record > if it cannot find an MX record and use the A record instead. An MX record is good practice, but is not required or necessary. If an MX record exists, the MX record must be used; otherwise mail will be del

clued-in AOL postmaster?

2003-03-24 Thread Will Yardley
[ Reply-To set to me ] Sorry to be That Guy, but I've tried the usual methods of contact, including the phone # for people who are blocked *by* AOL, without much success. I've sent logs to the various addresses at http://postmaster.info.aol.com/ and to the contacts for AS1668 with no response. B

Re: Getting a Host Record

2003-03-12 Thread Will Yardley
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 05:25:15PM -0800, Crist J. Clark wrote: > I'm feeling really dumb asking this, but how does one get host info > out of Network Solutions WHOIS these days? > > I want to look up the contact info on a host. I can get the IP from > the hostname and vice-versa along with the

Re: spamcop.net?

2003-03-03 Thread Will Yardley
On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:41:21PM -0500, blitz wrote: > Anyone having trouble getting to/ know of any issues with spamcop.net today? > > They seemed to have dropped off the radar from me... > > No pings > No traceroute > > but they still show registered at 216.127.43.89 One of my customers

Re: Root server error

2003-02-27 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 02:21:20PM -0500, Geo. wrote: > Can someone verify something for me? > > Do an NSLOOKUP for www.stemtostern.com and stemtostern.com against the > i.gtld-servers.net > > why would the www one resolve? It's stale glue; i.e., there's a host (nameserver) record for this ad

Re: RIPE Down or DOSed ?

2003-02-27 Thread Will Yardley
On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 11:09:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > And on a related topic (whois.ripe.net almost unreachable, along with > the rest of RIPE): rwhois.level3.net:4321 as been MIA or AWOL for > about 4 days: Level3 was informed, but seems to have some good reasons > of their own n