Re: Over a decade of DDOS--any progress yet?

2010-12-08 Thread Jed Smith
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: > What progress has been made during the last decade at stopping DDOS > attacks? > Observing Mastercard today, apparently none. Can't blame stupid users or Microsoft for this one, either. The 'attackers' are using a .NET tool which I'm sure al

Re: New netblock Geolocate wrong (Google)

2010-01-19 Thread Jed Smith
On Jan 18, 2010, at 5:27 PM, Rosenberry, Eric wrote: > Specifically Maxmind (http://www.maxmind.com/) thinks we are in Canada My employer dealt with this recently, but I am unsure who specifically they communicated with at MaxMind. What I did notice is that once informed of the actual location o

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Jed Smith
This will be my only reply to the conversation now that Michelle has poked in and taken control of the thread. I had a beef with SORBS a while back on behalf of my day job, and it cost me quite a bit -- in frustration, in doing a few things publicly that I regret, and ultimately in spending a mont

Re: Identifying residential CPE IP addresses? (was: SORBS on autopilot?)

2010-01-12 Thread Jed Smith
On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:34 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 12, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: > > 3) Should people really argue over what other people do with their own > machines? You don't like SORBS, don't use it. Someone you need to talk to > likes SORBS, make them stop, or

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-12 Thread Jed Smith
On Jan 12, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Dave Martin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:51:47AM -0500, Jed Smith wrote: >> On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: >> The vibe I got from a number of administrators I talked to about it was "why >> would a standards document a

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-12 Thread Jed Smith
Steven, take it easy please. Given the first few replies I received, allow me to clarify, now that I've successfully hijacked the thread and apparently angered the anti-spam crowd: I am quite aware of the problem and do not disagree that there needs to be a way to identify what IP endpoints are r

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-12 Thread Jed Smith
On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: > http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-msullivan-dnsop-generic-naming-schemes-00.txt At the risk of hijacking the thread, is this draft considered to be of importance outside of SORBS' domain at all? When handling a /24 that ended up on the DUL -- I feel

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-07 Thread Jed Smith
On Jan 7, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Brian Johnson wrote: > Has anyone noticed that accessing http://www.he.net or > http://ipv6.he.net is either slow or inaccessible? Both are up here from both locations I'm bothered to try (business Comcast, Net Access Corp MMU). JS