Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Mark Foster
On 07/04/12 05:11, David Miller wrote: > > > RBLs don't block emails. Operators of mail servers who use RBLs block > emails (in part) based on information from RBLs. If only one could convince end-users of this fact. More often than not, end-user simply sees the company that they pay to provide

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 7:25 AM, wrote: > Yahoo is only a hegemony among spam havens, not a monopoly.  There's still > freelance havens out there, and they'll go away when SORBS does. Sorbs did have a decent set of traps - and did catch a lot of spam. The problem was atrociously poor maintenance

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:48:44 -0500, Jimmy Hess said: > That's kind of vague to say it's "unlikely to see 1 abuser". What is > the probability that > more IPs in the same /24 are likely to harbor abusers, given that you have > received abuse from one IP? It's similar to pirhanas or cockroaches

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
the yahoo item was a point all its own, unrelated to iweb's idiocy. yahoo no longer care to receive abuse reports from anyone at all. -Dan On Sat, 7 Apr 2012, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose abuse you're trying to mail On

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 07:00:52 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian said: > err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose > abuse you're trying to mail > > - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - > > > > (reason: 554 rejected due to spam content) Right

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread chris
i dont think anyone would miss sorbs if it was gone, dare i say it not even a single person On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > > Brielle Bruns wrote: > > to come from such a block is more often than not a necessity. It's

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: > Brielle Bruns wrote: > to come from such a block is more often than not a necessity. It's very > unlikely to see 1 abuser in between an otherwise perfectly behaving network > neighbourhood. That's kind of vague to say it's "unlikely to see

Re: Question about peering

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
what does it cost you to peer, versus what does it cost you to not peer? if you are at the same ix the costs of peering are very low indeed On Saturday, April 7, 2012, Anurag Bhatia wrote: > Hello everyone > > > > I am curious to know how small ISPs plan peering with other interested > parties.

Re: The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
err, i dont know but yahoo hasnt yet acquired this random webhost whose abuse you're trying to mail On Friday, April 6, 2012, goe...@anime.net wrote: > The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning > properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. > > The day SORBS goes away i

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jeroen van Aart
Brielle Bruns wrote: Unfortunately, the apathy of providers, backbones, and network operators in general have created an environment that the almighty buck rules everything. I totally agree with pretty much everything in this email. I also agree that blocking whole /24 or bigger when spam has

The Cidr Report

2012-04-06 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Apr 6 21:12:44 2012 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

BGP Update Report

2012-04-06 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 29-Mar-12 -to- 05-Apr-12 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS840267283 3.7% 33.7 -- CORBINA-AS OJSC "Vimpelcom" 2 - AS10201 52074 2.9

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Robert Bonomi
Jimmy Hess wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote: > > If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider > > resulted in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, > > which is after all basically a list of people who don't take action > > whe

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Thu, Apr 05, 2012 at 06:45:30PM +0100, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 05/04/2012 17:48, goe...@anime.net wrote: > > But they will care about a /24. > > I'm curious as to why they would want to stop at /24. If you're going to > take the shotgun approach, why not blacklist the entire ASN? It's a bal

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Jared Mauch
On Apr 6, 2012, at 4:44 PM, David Conrad wrote: > However, I would be interested in hearing what the excuses are for folks not > implementing BCP38 these days. Easy: 1) hardare support varies 2) implementing bcp-38 drives customer support costs up in cases where the customer is doing somethi

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread David Conrad
Jimmy, On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:24 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, David Conrad wrote: >> I suspect the root server operators might not like this idea very much. > If it solves other problems adequately, they might eventually just have to > learn to like it. I was, of course

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Joe St Sauver
Jimmy commented: #The underlying problem is that "BCP38" is not really a "best common practice", #despite the name of the series. # #It's really a "Best Uncommon Practice that really ought to be more common", #but we can't control operators and force them to make it more common. # #Lots of netwo

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:24 PM, David Conrad wrote: [snip] > I suspect the root server operators might not like this idea very much. If it solves other problems adequately, they might eventually just have to learn to like it. [snip] > Treating a symptom and ignoring the disease. See > http://

Question about peering

2012-04-06 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Hello everyone I am curious to know how small ISPs plan peering with other interested parties. E.g if ISP A is connected to ISP C via big backbone ISP B, and say A and C both have open peering policy and assuming the exist in same exchange or nearby. Now at this point is there is any "minimum ba

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012, Landon Stewart wrote: If the purpose of blacklist is to block spam for recipients using that blacklist then a /32 works. If the purpose of a blacklist is to annoy providers then a /24 works. The most reputable and useful blacklists IMHO are Spamhaus and Spamcop - they don't

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 6 Apr 2012, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Ever wonder why it takes time for DNSbl's to process removals, sometimes very long periods? Well, someone's gotta pay for that time the removal person does it (and I have yet to see a dime of compensation for the time I spend). No, they don't.

Weekly Routing Table Report

2012-04-06 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. The posting is sent to APOPS, NANOG, AfNOG, AusNOG, SANOG, PacNOG, LacNOG, TRNOG, CaribNOG and the RIPE Routing Working Group. Daily listings are sent to bgp-st...@lists.ap

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Drew Weaver wrote: > So you're suggesting that hosting companies do what? I believe I'm suggesting you use SORBS as your canary in the coal mine and otherwise ignore them. But if you're asking what hosting companies could do to proactively prevent spamming and mak

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:48 AM, wrote: > If it was industry-wide standard practice that just notifying a provider > resulted > in something being done, we'd not need things like Senderbase, which is after > all basically a list of people who don't take action when notified... > [snip] Pot callin

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread David Conrad
On Apr 6, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: >> It turns out that DNSSEC makes a respectable traffic amplification vector: > This is definitely a problem. Yep. So are SNMP reflection attacks (biggest attack I've seen was one of these) and any other datagram-oriented query/response protocol. >

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 1:04 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: > On 06/04/2012 18:41, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: >> Anyone else seeing this sort of noise lately? > > There has been a bit of that recently for ripe.net and several other well > known DNSSEC enabled domains (e.g. isc.org). > > It turns out that DN

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:52 PM, PC wrote: > Of course you'd have to actually be running a poorly configured DNS server > on that IP for this to work... Right was that IP ever running a DNS service? Picking random IPs to spoof and hope some of the random IPs happen to be DNS servers doesn't

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 06/04/2012 18:41, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: > Anyone else seeing this sort of noise lately? There has been a bit of that recently for ripe.net and several other well known DNSSEC enabled domains (e.g. isc.org). It turns out that DNSSEC makes a respectable traffic amplification vector: > twinkie

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread PC
It could be a DNS amplification attack, with the source IP forged. They may be hoping you "reply" to the forged source with a response greater than the cost of them sending the query. Of course you'd have to actually be running a poorly configured DNS server on that IP for this to work... On Fr

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 04/06/12 10:47, Keegan Holley wrote: Have you tried contacting the owner of the IP? A DDOS attack from that particular IP would be ironic. # # The following results may also be obtained via: # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=72.20.23.24?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2 # Stamin

Re: DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Keegan Holley
Have you tried contacting the owner of the IP? A DDOS attack from that particular IP would be ironic. # # The following results may also be obtained via: # http://whois.arin.net/rest/nets;q=72.20.23.24?showDetails=true&showARIN=false&ext=netref2 # Staminus Communications STAMINUS-COMMUNICATIONS

DNS noise

2012-04-06 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
Anyone else seeing this sort of noise lately? 10:35:00.958556 IP 72.20.23.24.53 > 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net. (38) 10:35:00.961055 IP 72.20.23.19.53 > 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net. (38) 10:35:01.262461 IP 72.20.23.19.53 > 66.171.180.48.53: 952+ [1au] ANY? ripe.net.

The day SORBS goes away ...

2012-04-06 Thread goemon
The day SORBS goes away is the day ab...@yahoo.com starts functioning properly and yahoo starts booting spammers. The day SORBS goes away is the day BS like this stops happening: - The following addresses had permanent fatal errors - (reason: 554 rejected due to spam content) -Da

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread David Miller
On 4/6/2012 12:35 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: >> On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: >>> >>> I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, >>> oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some >>> very thre

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
So you're suggesting that hosting companies do what? How many emails or port 25/587 connections a (day, week, hour) makes someone a spammer if there are no objections being lodged at the abuse department? Are we supposed to do DPI on every email that a dedicated server sends out and then decide

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 7:31 AM, Drew Weaver wrote: > That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of >something that a reputation list finds objectionable and take >it down ourselves than have Senderbase set a poor >reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. I think the idea is that you're

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2012 09:17 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A wee

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 09:55:35 -0400, Drew Weaver said: > That is again, not true. > > Senderbase's listings don't correlate to any public information so it's pretty > much impossible to pro-actively protect ourselves from having our IPs set to > poor. You missed the point - if it was industry stan

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 10:02 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: I wonder how long a popularish blacklist operator would last if they, oh say, blacklisted all of google or microsoft before they got some very threatening letters from their legal staff. An hour? A day? A week? You may have the right to list them and ch

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 9:49 AM, George Herbert wrote: This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and befor...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your attitud

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Michael Thomas
On 04/06/2012 08:49 AM, George Herbert wrote: This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and before j...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. You

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread George Herbert
This seems like a very 1999 anti-spam attitude. I have been doing anti-spam a long long time - literally since before Canter and Siegel (who I had as customers...) and before j...@cup.portal.com. It's not 1999 anymore. Patrick is not the enemy. Your attitude is worrying. The "I am not respons

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/6/12 9:02 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: No, they don't. Many DNSBLs use self-service tools. Someone has to write the tool, but the rest is automated. Total cost is power& space, which is frequently donated (I have personally donated some myself to DNSBLs I thought were well run). Proxy

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 6, 2012, at 10:54 , Brielle Bruns wrote: > On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: > It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. >> It turns into a customer service issue fo

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 4/4/12 3:36 PM, Landon Stewart wrote: > It's best to not complain about it and just accept it as a fact of life > your IPs are listed on SORBS and move on. It's not the end of the world. > It turns into a customer service issue for most service providers. Eh, guess they'll just have to a

Re: SIP Carrier Consolidation

2012-04-06 Thread Elijah Savage
Thanks to all who responded off list even to those that are intrested in the opportunity, I do appreciate it. - Original Message - From: "Daryl G. Jurbala" To: "Elijah Savage" Cc: "Robert E. Seastrom" , "NANOG list" Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 8:51:45 PM Subject: Re: SIP Carrier Cons

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2012-04-06 Thread Matt Ryanczak
On 4/5/12 1:26 PM, George B. wrote: How long did it take them? We have had a request in for records for a domain for over a week now, and nothing in whois yet. between a couple of hours and 5 to 10 business days. The long leads times came when I no longer had direct contacts and had to g

RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
That is again, not true. Senderbase's listings don't correlate to any public information so it's pretty much impossible to pro-actively protect ourselves from having our IPs set to poor. I.e. when Senderbase assigns IPs to poor, those same IPs aren't listed on any RBLs or anything. They opera

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Apr 2012 07:31:47 -0400, Drew Weaver said: > That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a > reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have > Senderbase set a poor reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. If it was industry-wide stan

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RE: SORBS?!

2012-04-06 Thread Drew Weaver
That's just not true, we would much rather be notified of something that a reputation list finds objectionable and take it down ourselves than have Senderbase set a poor reputation on dozens of IaaS customers. -Drew -Original Message- From: goe...@anime.net [mailto:goe...@anime.net] Se