Re: Facebook insecure by design

2011-10-20 Thread Murtaza
Going back to the initial security problem identified by Williams, I also experienced something today. I guess he is right about that. I am behind a proxy and I just disabled the proxy for Secure Web which means HTTPS. Now guess what I was still able to access facebook while I was not able to

Abha Ahuja, 2001

2011-10-20 Thread Phil Regnauld
Abha passed away 10 years ago today. Time flies.

Re: RIP dmr

2011-10-20 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Lynda wrote: Dennis was one of the good ones. A kind and generous person, who changed all our worlds. Indeed. I consider the KR C book as the pinnacle of how a book like that should be written. Every page, every sentence contains a multitude of information and there is no redundancy. The C

Re: Outsourcing DDOS

2011-10-20 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 09:13 19/10/2011 -0400, samuel.cunning...@wellsfargo.com wrote: We are considering using Prolexic to 'defend' our Internet-facing network from DDOS attacks. Anyone have any known issues or word of warnings before we proceed? Things to check: - DDOS service caps - outage remedy credits -

Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread bas
Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then I replied to the guy that if he tries to sell a technical

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Paul Graydon
On 10/20/2011 10:48 AM, bas wrote: Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then I replied to the guy

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Jay Nakamura
Well, it didn't say router hops... They could mean AS hops I guess. I never trust marketing garbage anyway. It makes my head hurt. On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:48 PM, bas kilo...@gmail.com wrote: Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: As you

RE: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Holmes,David A
Looking at the link referenced below, the route optimization method mentioned appears to be very similar to the old Routescience or Sockeye BGP optimization products. -Original Message- From: Jay Nakamura [mailto:zeusda...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 1:54 PM To: bas Cc:

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Ryan Rawdon
On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:48 PM, bas wrote: Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then I replied

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread bas
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:54 PM, Jay Nakamura zeusda...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it didn't say router hops...  They could mean AS hops I guess. Well actually the url I included earlier contains an explanation Understanding the “Hop” Data transmitted across a network passes through numerous

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Richard Irving
/lurk Awww C'mon. It is the same old, same old. Q: What is the difference between a Sales Engineer, and an Engineer ? A: The Engineer *knows* when he is lying. :-D same as it ever was same as it ever was...same as it .. ever... was.. - Talking Heads lurk On 10/20/2011 04:59 PM,

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread manny
On 10/20/11 5:11 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Holmes,David A wrote: Looking at the link referenced below, the route optimization method mentioned appears to be very similar to the old Routescience or Sockeye BGP optimization products. That might have something

RE: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Darrell Hyde
That might have something to do with the fact InterNAP bought both of them (and the third company in that space). I believe RouteScience was acquired by Avaya in 2004. Did Internap acquire the IP after the fact? - Darrell

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/20/2011 4:03 PM, Ryan Rawdon wrote: You should expectour prefix.1 to respond to ping and such, but not 2our prefix.0 as that is only capable of representing a subnet and not a network interface of any kind, or any machine, at all Honestly, though. Can you blame them in this case? Given

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:39:51 CDT, Jack Bates said: On 10/20/2011 4:03 PM, Ryan Rawdon wrote: You should expectour prefix.1 to respond to ping and such, but not 2our prefix.0 as that is only capable of representing a subnet and not a network interface of any kind, or any machine, at all

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Jack Bates
On 10/20/2011 8:08 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Yes, it's possibly foolish to allocate x.y.z.0 or .255. But saying that that x.y.z.0 is *not* *capable* of representing an interface is demonstrating a dangerous lack of knowledge. There's several totally legal .0 and .255 addresses in each

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Brant I. Stevens
On 10/20/11 5:22 PM, manny mherna...@comcast.net wrote: On 10/20/11 5:11 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Holmes,David A wrote: Looking at the link referenced below, the route optimization method mentioned appears to be very similar to the old Routescience or

Re: Did Internap lose all clue?

2011-10-20 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:48:34PM +0200, bas wrote: Recently I was contacted by an Internap sales person. The third line of the email read: As you know well, BGP makes all routing decisions simply based on HOP COUNT I blinked my eyes a couple of times.. Yes it really said hop count. Then