Re: Looking for Yahoo eMail contact

2016-01-13 Thread Dave Pooser
g him gear that is "No F*ing Good." Hilarity ensues -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: rDNS delegation process question

2015-08-18 Thread Dave Pooser
ever has access to >net...@alfordmedia.com,. n...@airband.com, or an associated POC would need >to use the appropriate ARIN template or interface to make the change. That definitely gets me pointed in the right direction. Tasty $BEVERAGE, I owe you a few... -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

rDNS delegation process question

2015-08-18 Thread Dave Pooser
like to be authoritative for the reverse DNS and wait about 12 hours for them to handle the ticket." Now I'm trying to help my GTT contact get pointed in the right direction, and any assistance would be appreciated. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: Quakecon: Network Operations Center tour

2015-08-02 Thread Dave Pooser
d in any way, so my speculation is based on no information obtained from outside my own skull.) -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

2015-07-16 Thread Dave Pooser
>Internet in a box. > >Wasn't that the Japanese thing with the Woody Woodpecker logo and the >(translated) English text: "Touch Woody, the Internet pecker"? > >Didn't go over to well in English speaking parts as I recall ... But it eventually evolved into Ch

Re: dns on fios/frontier

2015-04-20 Thread Dave Pooser
customer with no frontier connection at all. -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: dns on fios/frontier

2015-04-20 Thread Dave Pooser
433 ms 12 sl-gw20-sea-11-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.60) 70.467 ms sl-gw20-sea-5-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.218) 67.034 ms 66.585 ms 13 144.232.9.62 (144.232.9.62) 69.903 ms 67.101 ms 67.374 ms 14 psg.com (147.28.0.62) 62.188 ms 64.435 ms 67.417 ms -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: Office 365 Expert - I am not. I have a customer that...

2015-01-12 Thread Dave Pooser
e away from on-prem if they understood all the costs including increased bandwidth? -- Dave Pooser Cat-Herder-in-Chief, Pooserville.com

Re: cannot access some popular websites from Linode, geolocation is wrong, ARIN is to blame?

2013-03-03 Thread Dave Pooser
>Have we *really* sunk so low that inline replies need to be flagged as >such, because people *expect* top-posting and if they don't see it they >assume it's a MUA misfire rather than an inline reply? SATSQ: Any time the question is "have we *really* sunk so low?"

Re: Announcing a reserved ASN?

2013-02-03 Thread Dave Pooser
you listed hit on enough URL blacklists that Spamassassin quarantined the message for me (and would have rejected it during the SMTP transaction had the NANOG server not been listed on DNSWL-High). Spam hosts plus fake ASN = paging the Spamhaus DROP maintainers to the white courtesy phone -- Dave

Re: which one a Technical Support or Help Desk

2012-03-03 Thread Dave Pooser
ISP. (I've lived in Texas almost 16 years-- if you're so redneck that *I* can't understand you, you need a job where all your communication is in writing. Or pictures.) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked Networks)

2012-02-02 Thread Dave Pooser
On 2/1/12 8:43 PM, "Jimmy Hess" wrote: >Simple government regulation is of limited value, since the problem >network >may be overseas. So government regulation won't work >What the internet really needs is Tier1 and Tier2 providers participating >in the internet who "care", regardless of

Re: using ULA for 'hidden' v6 devices?

2012-01-25 Thread Dave Pooser
using overlapping RFC1918 space, of course. Then the idea of globally unique addressing, even if it's not globally routable, starts looking awfully useful. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: World IPv6 Launch Day - June 6, 2012

2012-01-17 Thread Dave Pooser
On 1/17/12 10:17 PM, "Owen DeLong" wrote: >I don't seem to be able to get to the site on IPv6. Well not before June 6, duh! You don't open Christmas presents in August either! :^) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

BGP noob needs monitoring advice

2011-12-20 Thread Dave Pooser
d like something more automated. Free is nice, $$ is not a problem, might become a problem. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Cogent --> Google Public DNS routing issue

2011-08-16 Thread Dave Pooser
On 8/16/11 11:09 PM, "Robert Glover" wrote: >What is going on here? Cogent finally depeered the entire US? :^) -- Dave Pooser Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection?

2011-01-12 Thread Dave Pooser
x27;s harder to get for most SMBs.) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-28 Thread Dave Pooser
> IPv6's fundamental goal is to restore end-to-end. For some. For many, IPv6's fundamental goal is to keep doing what we've been doing without running out of addresses. The fact that the two camps have orthogonal goals is probably part of the reason the rate of growth on IPv6 is

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-20 Thread Dave Pooser
two-- greater than the number of hosts behind stateful firewalls using public addresses. It's not that the latter don't exist, it's that economies of scale make the NAT/PAT appliances more widely used and thus more relevant to the discussion. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Infor

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-19 Thread Dave Pooser
eyeball ISP is the first to react to looming IPv4 exhaustion by (NAT | IPv6 && 6to4)ing their client ranges and using the freed up /9 to offer colo/hosting services at very competitive (compared to desperately scrambling to find a /29 at your IPv4-exhausted ISP) pricing. -- Dave Poo

Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-18 Thread Dave Pooser
s that end users replace outdated browsers at the drop of a hat, right? -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: small site multi-homing (related to: Small guys with BGP issues)

2009-11-03 Thread Dave Pooser
sts to be reachable even after Bubba and his backhoe finish tearing up the road in front of my office. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Is your ISP blocking outgoing port 25?

2009-06-20 Thread Dave Pooser
configuration. The iPhone mail app will try 587 and then fall back to 25 if 587 doesn't work, which strikes me as a model for others to emulate. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Fiber cut - response in seconds?

2009-06-01 Thread Dave Pooser
riving a different brand of SUV might splice in a fiber tap is something altogether different. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-18 Thread Dave Pooser
that they don't support IPv6; if your product HAD supported IPv6 you would have been in a much stronger position when the contract was awarded." -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-25 Thread Dave Pooser
in Hindi and as familiar with the technology they are "supporting" as I am with rebuilding transmissions ("not at all" and "not at all" respectively). That said, Merry Christmas to all and I hope Santa brought extra eggnog to any poor souls working tech support this

Re: What to do when your ISP off-shores tech support

2008-12-24 Thread Dave Pooser
area, they >> suck even more than they do other places. Vote with your feet. >> > I am pretty sure that COVAD is offshore now Last time I talked to them the helpdesk people were Canadian. That's for T1s; I'm not sure if they do DSL support in the same location. --

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-23 Thread Dave Pooser
staff already do, which is use an alternate port with encryption, use VPN as a fallback plan, and failing that go somewhere else for Internet access. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Pooser
y, and has the added benefit of being on-topic for NANOG. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-22 Thread Dave Pooser
ress is valid, then it's done its job. Sender callouts will verify addresses without requiring any action from the end user. If you must [ab]use my resources to do your job, please have the common decency to use my (abundant) hardware and software resources rather than my (much more limited)

Re: Misguided SPAM Filtering techniques

2007-10-21 Thread Dave Pooser
s through to the end user. I figure if they think I'm gonna filter their mail for free, well, they get what they pay for. :^) -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com