Re: The Reg does 240/4

2024-02-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The only thing stopping global IPv6 deployment is Netflix continuing to offer services over IPv4. If Netflix dropped IPv4, you would see IPv6 available *everywhere* within a month. --lyndon

Re: The Reg does 240/4

2024-02-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
> > How many legacy mail clients can handle IPv6? I would suspect all of them, since MUAs, by definition, are not involved in any mail transport operations. But if you're thinking of MUAs that use Submission, they are unlikely to care one whit what the underlying transport is. You configure a

Re: The Reg does 240/4

2024-02-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
And what are they going to do when 240/4 runs out?

Re: JunOS config yacc grammar?

2023-08-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
OFFS people, spare me the bikeshed. It was a simple yes/no question. In case you missed it, here is the decision tree: /---\ | START | \---/ | | ^ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ /Do

Re: JunOS config yacc grammar?

2023-08-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Diogo Montagner writes: > --728632060377d0b2 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > I would first try to understand what you are trying to achieve. JUNOS is > very flexible on this front and I am wondering why you think yacc is the > right way to achieve what you are trying to

Re: JunOS config yacc grammar?

2023-08-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Nick Hilliard writes: > No need to reinvent that wheel: > > root@foo> show configuration | display xml > root@foo> show configuration | display json That doesn't quite work for this scenario. It would mean ssh-ing to the switch to grab it, and that's pretty locked down. We already have cron

JunOS config yacc grammar?

2023-08-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Any chance somebody out there has a yacc grammar that will parse a Juniper config files? My immediate interest involves v19.X on our EX4300s, but anything in the ballpark would save me having to write one from scratch. --lyndon

Amateur radio @ nanog 88

2023-05-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
For the hams attending 88, should we pick a simplex frequency or two to rendevouz on for beer consumption planning purposes? I'll be armed with a tribander for 146/222/440. --lyndon

Re: Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-07 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Forrest Christian (List Account) writes: > I'm also wondering if this might be a "no one that has got the request > actually has a clue how to resolve your issues" issue. I've seen > situations where companies don't know how to respond to a request outside > the most common requests they get.

Re: Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-05 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Forrest Christian (List Account) writes: > I can't speak for aptum, but I'm curious as to why this is important to > you? I'm not trying to discount this at all, just curious why this > matters in the internet of 2023. Two main reasons. 1) We are trying to set up internal peering with AWS,

Aptum refuses to SWIP

2023-05-04 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
It seems Aptum has decided they will no longer SWIP any of their address space. I've been trying to get a SWIP for a /48 that we were allocated in 2017, but they refuse. And I also see they have pro-actively gone in and un-SWIPed both our /24s. Since you are ignoring my tickets about this,

BGP Books

2023-04-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
It has been a couple of decades since I've done any BGP in anger, but it looks like I will be jumping into the deep end again, soon, and I desperately need to get up to speed again. There seem to be a lot of good guides out there from Cisco, Juniper, and the like, but naturally they are very

Re: Imperva / Apple Private Relay issues

2022-09-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Robert Schoneman writes: > I've tested accessing one of our sites that uses Imperva WAF w/ DDOS protec= > tion enabled from an iPhone w/ Apple Private Relay turned on. I experienced= > no issues but only have that single test to go on. =20 A couple of people from Cloudflare and Apple contacted

Imperva / Apple Private Relay issues

2022-09-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
We have been receiving a steady stream of calls from customers complaining they cannot reach our websites when they have Apple's Private Relay enabled. For those in the dark, Private Relay sends (only) Safari connections through an assortment of CDNs to anonymize the client's IP address. What we

Re: FCC to Consider New Rules to Combat International Scam Robocalls

2022-04-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Jon Lewis writes: > > I've noticed a few (small number) of robocalls have started spoofing > > international phone numbers instead of local phone numbers. I don't know if > Are you sure this isn't just either a failure to spoof or incompetent > spoofing? Nope. I've been seeing an increasing

Re: junos config commit question

2022-02-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Owen DeLong writes: > top > rollback I am *sure* I tried exactly that but it wasn't working as I expected. But maybe I was just imagining things. And somehow I completely missed the 'rollback 0' variant while plowing through the documentation. Thanks everyone for assisting the blind ;-)

Re: junos config commit question

2022-02-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Nick Suan via NANOG writes: > I was actually interested to see if the EX series would let me do this, and i > t turns out that if STP is enabled on any of the switch interfaces, it won't: > tevruden@core-02# commit check > [edit protocols rstp] > 'interface' > XSTP : Interface ge-0/0/0.0 is

Re: junos config commit question

2022-02-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
Marco Davids via NANOG writes: > rollback 0 OFFS 8-0 Thanks :-)

junos config commit question

2022-02-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)
On an EX4300 switch running JunOS 14.1 let's imagine I typed config delete interfaces before coming to my senses. How am I supposed to back out of that mess? For the life of me, after a week of reading the 3000 page reference manual, and endless DuckDuckGoing, I cannot see a

Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Apr 21, 2018, at 3:48 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > You have a logic fail. This fails because it STILL depends on the DNS for > the zone working. If the DNS fails to that extent, everything fails. I was addressing the single application endpoint point-of-failure. But

Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:47 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > Actually, a I doubt that there are any "real" people with vanity domains > behind this move. I suspect that it is the scammers and spammers who want to > hide their information for very good reason. > > And of

Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Apr 21, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > >> But backup and failover are reasonably well understood technologies >> where one cares. Registrars could for example cache copies of those >> zone records and act as failover whois

Re: Is WHOIS going to go away?

2018-04-21 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Apr 21, 2018, at 1:58 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > That's actually an excellent point and counterpoint to my suggestion > to move the WHOIS information into DNS RRs. > > But backup and failover are reasonably well understood technologies > where one cares. Registrars could for example

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:50 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > Comcast is passing out CPE that provides a subnet for the actual subscriber, > and another one for *other* Comcast roaming customers. And somehow this > works for a company the size of Comcast without the customers needing to

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:26 PM, Brock Tice wrote: > > Most of our customers only have 2-5 devices. I know this is not the case > in most of America but we are quite rural and for many people they've > never had better than 1.5Mbps DSL until we install service at their > location.

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 7:28 PM, Tony Wicks wrote: > > I think its time you all had a bit of a holiday break and stopped thinking > of IP networking for a little while, Just saying... Nah. This is a useful conversation (and argument) to have.

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 6:54 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > > Home networks with multiple LANs??? Never going to happen; people don't know > how to set them up, and there's little technical need for it. Again, you are assuming you know how people will use networks forever. Stop

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Peripherally, it's worth noting that, in far less time then we have not migrated from IPv4 to IPv6, the UK moved from 7-digit to 11-digit telephone numbers. If that's not embarrassing ... --lyndon

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > All I was trying to say is there're going to be things > not thought of yet that will chew up address space > faster than ever before now that everyone believes it's > essentially inexhaustible. And, I expect,

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> :: Isn't this the utopia we've been seeking out? > > I like that one! :-) Seriously. If we run out of networks while handing out /48s, by migrating everything to HTTPS we can claw back the 16 bit 'port' field in the IP header and reassign it as part of the 140-bit IPv6.1 address space.

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 4:57 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > > Instead, think about how we can carve up a 2^61 address space (based on the > current /3 active global allocation pool) between 2^32 people (Earth's > current population) Of course, I screwed u

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 3:28 PM, Brock Tice wrote: > > We are currently handing out /52s to customers. Based on a reasonable > sparse allocation scheme that would account for future growth that > seemed like the best option. Could you detail the reasoning behind your allocation

Re: Waste will kill ipv6 too

2017-12-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 28, 2017, at 2:31 PM, Thomas Bellman wrote: > > My problem with the IPv6 addressing scheme is not the waste of 64 bits > for the interface identifier, but the lack of bits for the subnet id. > 16 bits (as you normally get a /48) is not much for a semi-large organi-

Re: Suggestions for a more privacy conscious email provider

2017-12-04 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Dec 4, 2017, at 3:19 AM, Edwin Pers wrote: > > As an anecdotal aside, approx. 70% of incoming portscanners/rdp bots/ssh > bots/etc that hit the firewalls at my sites are coming from AWS. > I used to send abuse emails but eventually gave up after receiving nothing >

Re: RFC 1918 network range choices

2017-10-05 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Oct 5, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Steve Feldman wrote: > > I have a vague recollection of parts of 192.168.0.0/16 being used as default > addresses on early Sun systems. If that's actually true, it might explain > that choice. 192.9.200.X rings a bell; but those might

Re: Hurricane Maria: Dominica partial communications restored

2017-09-20 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > > Some ham radio operators have been verified as operating from Dominica. Its > an unfortunate, but necessary thing that needs to be verified during disaster > communications. I'm not clear what you're getting at here.

mailops https breakage

2017-06-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Aug 27, 2016, at 6:46 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 01:25:42AM -, John Levine wrote: >> In article >> you >> write: >>> I was working within the limits of what I had

Re: SHA1 collisions proven possisble

2017-02-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Feb 23, 2017, at 6:10 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: > > When you can do that in the timespan of weeks or days, get back to me. Stop thinking in the context of bits of fake news on your phone. Start thinking in the context of trans-national agreements that will soon be signed

Re: Canada joins the 21st century !

2016-12-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Canada should just have Comcast (or is it "Xfinity"?) provided nation-wide Internet service as a for-profit monopoly. Just as long as we have *someone* to Telus whom to chose.

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:52 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > > It's the closed software that is fscking everything up right now. A little > sunshine on the code base will go a long way towards those people not losing > their Ferrari's after all.

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: > > If you hold the executives of the hardware manufacturer > responsible for the software running on their devices, > then the next generation of hardware from every > manufacturer is going to be hardware locked to >

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Oct 3, 2016, at 5:39 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > You're not familiar with CPSC mandatory recalls, are you? I'm not sure how you could make the case that a compromised DVR, e.g., directly creates a risk of physical injury to a person. Without that, I don't see how

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
This is where device profiles could help. If enough devices register profiles with the local router, at some point the router's default could be closed, so devices with no profile can't talk to the outside. That would be nice, but a manufacturer who can't be bothered to take even the most

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
But that does not remove those devices from the network. That ship has sailed.

Re: Legislative proposal sent to my Congressman

2016-10-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
In thinking over the last DDos involving IoT devices, I think we don't have a good technical solution to the problem. Cutting off people with defective devices they they don't understand, and have little control over, is an action that makes sense, but hurts the innocent. "Hey, Grandma, did

Re: Kudos to Rogers Wireless on IPv6 deployment

2016-10-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Oct 1, 2016, at 8:37 PM, Hugo Slabbert wrote: > > So, kudos, Rogers Wireless! This has also been live on Roger's Fido sub-brand for a while now, too. 2605:8d80:484:: is live in Vancouver. --lyndon

Re: Chinese root CA issues rogue/fake certificates

2016-08-31 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Aug 31, 2016, at 6:36 PM, Matt Palmer wrote: > > Thanks, Netscape. Great ecosystem you built. Nobody at that time had a clue how this environment was going to scale, let alone what the wide-ranging security issues would be. And where were you back then, not saving

yahoo mta admin help needed

2016-07-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Is there a Yahoo MTA admin listening who can help diagnose what might be a network ACL block to one of our SMTP server subnets? Thanks, --lyndon

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> In other words, it's not just Netflix that has this problem... No, it's Netflix that has the problem. Audible actually gives a fuck about their customers.

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-06 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> 1. C-band teleport in Singapore with SingTel IPs, remote terminals in > Afghanistan. > > 2. Ku-band teleport in Germany with IP space in an Intelsat /20, remote > terminal on the roof of a US government diplomatic facility in > $DEVELOPING_COUNTRY > > 3. Teleports in Miami with IP space that

Re: Netflix VPN detection - actual engineer needed

2016-06-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On Jun 3, 2016, at 4:59 PM, jim deleskie wrote: > > I don't suspect many folks that are outside of this list would likely have > any idea how to set up a v6 tunnel. Those of us on the list, likely have a > much greater ability to influence v6 adoption or not via day job >

Re: NIST NTP servers

2016-05-12 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
[...] but I would also have doubts over running anything business critical on a RP2. We use them as reverse terminal servers, for dhcp/tftp bootstrapping other machines, and soon, NTP. They are absolutely rock solid. There's something to be said for "no moving parts inside." --lyndon

Re: NIST NTP servers

2016-05-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
> On May 11, 2016, at 5:42 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > > Wouldn't the buffers empty in a FIFO manner? They will empty in whatever order the implementation decides to write them. But what's more important is the order in which the incoming packets are presented to the

Re: remote serial console (IP to Serial)

2016-03-09 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I'd get something like a 1U ATOM server ($120 eBay) with small SSD ($18). Runup your favorite FOSS OS, and conserver. For more than the single real serialport, you can most likely fit a USB hub inside the case still, and hang a number of USB serial dongles off. We use Raspberry Pi 2s with

MACsec to edge hosts

2015-12-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Are any of you pushing MACsec (802.1AE) out from your switches to the edge hosts? Vs. just running it on the network cross-connect fabric? We have a scenario where, if we could MACsec encrypt those (switch <-> host) links, we could eliminate a lot of application level TLS. But searching for a

Re: Staring Down the Armada Collective

2015-12-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Dec 3, 2015, at 6:28 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > Are we perhaps, finally, reaching the cusp where everyone has realized that > if we all, collectively, tell the rodents to f*** off, they just might? I should also mention that, despite their bluster, the

Re: Staring Down the Armada Collective

2015-12-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Dec 3, 2015, at 9:14 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyn...@orthanc.ca> wrote: > I should also mention that, despite their bluster, they can't keep it up for > more than half an hour. The mailing list has been quiet. All step forward who are scared to say "me too" on accoun

Re: Ransom DDoS attack - need help!

2015-12-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Afaik, the DDoS is "only" a UDP based one (or much of the attack), you should be able to mitigate some to much of the damage caused by filled pipes by blocking incomming UDP trafic at your ISP level. This is the Armada Collective, based on the description. We just went through a round with

Re: Ransom DDoS attack - need help!

2015-12-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Dec 3, 2015, at 5:00 PM, alvin nanog wrote: > run tcpdump and/or etherreal to capture the DDoS attacks Of course! If we had only thought of this sooner! :-) --lyndon signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Staring Down the Armada Collective

2015-12-03 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Typically, businesses hide from admitting they've been hit by drive-by attacks like Armada is trying to pull off. It has been interesting to see the public reaction from the post-Protonmail targets, many of whom are being very visible about 1) admitting they have been hit by the attacks, and 2)

Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion

2015-07-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jul 14, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Tony Hain alh-i...@tndh.net wrote: IPv6 is not the last protocol known to mankind. IF it burns out in 400-500 years, something will have gone terribly wrong, because newer ideas about networking will have been squashed along the way. 64 bits for both hosts and

Re: ARIN IPV4 Countdown

2015-07-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jul 14, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Curtis Maurand cmaur...@xyonet.com wrote: Since IPV6 does not have NAT, it's going to be difficult for the layman to understand their firewall. deployment of ipv4 is pretty simple. ipv6 on the otherhand is pretty difficult at the network level. yes, all the

Re: ARIN IPV4 Countdown

2015-07-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jul 14, 2015, at 7:26 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: But.. But... How does that work without using UPNP? :) SHOUT LOUDER! signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: another tilt^2 [real numbers]

2015-07-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
For a bit of fun, the results after 30 minutes of https://orthanc.ca/figure-1 being out on the nanog list: IPv4: 315 IPv6: 22 This is strictly GETs on the target page, not tainted by CSS or favicon nonsense. I don't know what this says about the proclivity of Nanog readers to blindly

Re: another tilt at the Verizon FIOS IPv6 windmill

2015-07-13 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jul 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Mel Beckman m...@beckman.org wrote: David, Did you consider running an IPv6 tunnel through HE.net? Tunnels work, but they really are getting old. I have run 3ffe:: 6bone, HE tunnels, and (currently) aiccu. They all work very reliably, and I have immense

Thoughts On Cheap Chinese xDSL Testers

2015-06-29 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I've been poking around looking for an inexpensive xDSL circuit tester to do some measurements on my home DSL line, in opposition to the telco. $2K+ is not in the budget, so I'm curious about the accuracy of the $300 Chinese units kicking around eBay (e.g. the ST332B). Anyone out there have

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-27 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 27, 2015, at 5:35 AM, Rafael Possamai raf...@gav.ufsc.br wrote: How long do you think it will take to completely get rid of IPv4? Or is it even going to happen at all? IPX ruled the roost, very popularly, for a little while. How long did it take to die? Why did it die? What were the

Re: Residential VSAT experiences?

2015-06-22 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 22, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: I do SSH over geostationary satellite links (C-band) all the time. I'd say it's slow, but not excruciating, unless you type really fast on the network device's CLI. :-) SSH client/server authors would do well to learn

Re: DMARC in education

2015-06-17 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
What problem do you expect this to solve? This is a real question, since you can be 100% sure that any DMARC policy will wreak havoc on any of your users who use mailing lists like this one. *Any* mailing list. Please help stamp out this abomination by refusing to capitulate to its insane

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-11 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 11, 2015, at 9:06 PM, Karl Auer ka...@biplane.com.au wrote: You don't get to just say I'm not going to implement this because I don't agree with it, which is what Google is doing in the case of Android. Actually, you DO get to just say that. Anyone can, but especially something as

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 10, 2015, at 11:18 AM, goe...@anime.net wrote: Indeed, the interview process is a two way street. Lets you evaluate who you would be working for -- or if you really would want to. I wrote most of a very long follow-up to this. But what it boils down to is: +10,000 For all of you

Nobody is looking for serious candidates

2015-06-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 10, 2015, at 8:39 PM, Stephen Satchell l...@satchell.net wrote: After the phone screen, the company called me in for the face-to-face interview. I put the word interview in quotes because, for 25 minutes, the chief programmer of the place played a video game he wrote. That was the

Re: Android (lack of) support for DHCPv6

2015-06-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
Where is Mr. Protocol? When we need him most?! signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 28, 2015, at 4:37 PM, Jack Bates jba...@paradoxnetworks.net wrote: The question is, if YOU paid for the fiber to be run to their ped, would they hook you up? No. But that's because they are using the fibre pedestals to deliver a high bandwidth DSL service. The condo customers still

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
It's not about that's all they need, that's all they want, etc. Whenever any vendor spouts this is what our customers want you know they are talking pure bullshit. The only customers who know what they want are the microscopic percentage who know what's actually possible, and we are dismissed

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 28, 2015, at 5:24 PM, Stephen Satchell l...@satchell.net wrote: (N.B.: we forced long TTLs to reduce the traffic necessary across our peering points. At one point, the cable people said they had one, count 'em one, peering link at 44 megabits/s, to serve all cable companies [with

Re: symmetric vs. asymmetric [was: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality]

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 28, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Barry Shein b...@world.std.com wrote: I remember when downloading still images (dial-up days) was considered bandwidth hogging and only something very few people did. Of course no one did it, it took minutes to download even a rather small image and there was

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-28 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
In my part of the world, a well-known service provider runs FTTC and then runs VDSL into the home. Ummh... I live in a 3rd word country. Oh Canada! signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

protection.outlook.com SMTP support contact needed

2015-02-26 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I'm running into TLS interoperability problems with some of the SMTP servers under the inbound.protection.outlook.com domain. Are there any Outlook postmasters lurking here that could contact me off list to help debug this? Thanks, --lyndon

Re: Craigslist hacked?

2014-11-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Nov 23, 2014, at 7:41 PM, Brian Henson marin...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone else seeing their local craigslist redirected to another site other than craigslist? I see it loading http://digitalgangster.com/5um. *.craigslist.ca and *.craigslist.org have been offline since about 16:40 Pacific

Re: Craigslist hacked?

2014-11-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Nov 23, 2014, at 8:51 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: and what tasty things did the hijacker's web site serve? Firefox on my Mac started acting very strangely after encountering one of the 'unresponsive' versions of craigslist.ca. Apparent browser hangs, javascript script timeouts,

Re: cheap laptop with 32G or 64G recommendations

2014-11-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Nov 10, 2014, at 4:24 PM, Izaac iz...@setec.org wrote: If you're stuck working in a completely isolated environment, then work it into the contract. That's the cost of being on an island. This is the argument being made against all the citizens who have the temerity to live in British

Re: Urgent

2014-08-18 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Aug 18, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: the request message was a forge, see below. damned shame i did not think of it, though. otoh, i consider the contact requests useful. You just blew an opportunity to get on every north american late night talk show. Oh ...

Re: Verizon Public Policy on Netflix

2014-07-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: I assume that there's a leopard involved there somewhere? It's noodling around in the disused lavatory with Moaning Myrtle. signature.asc Description: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail

Re: Canada and IPv6 ( DNSSEC)

2014-06-23 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Jun 20, 2014, at 6:24 AM, Jacques Latour jacques.lat...@cira.ca wrote: Just as an indicator, we have 316 .ca domains with IPv6 glue records :-( Part of the problem might be that two of the bigger registrars (Webnames and easyDNS) *still* can't handle input of IPv6 addresses in their

Re: OpenNTPProject.org

2014-02-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 16, 2014, at 7:59 PM, Mark Tinka mark.ti...@seacom.mu wrote: Juniper's Junos implementation (which is based on FreeBSD) hasn't been patched Using firewall filters is the only way to mitigate the vulnerability. But doesn't the JunOS ntpd read/parse ntpd.conf? It's worth getting

Re: OpenNTPProject.org

2014-02-16 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Feb 16, 2014, at 8:30 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: and good luck with figuring out: 1) when you need to re-do that magic move 2) making sure that the move is automatable over time I was suggesting it as an alternative to just chopping off NTP at your border.

Re: latest Snowden docs show NSA intercepts all Google and Yahoo DC-to-DC traffic

2013-11-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On Nov 1, 2013, at 7:18 PM, Mike Lyon mike.l...@gmail.com wrote: So even if Goog or Yahoo encrypt their data between DCs, what stops the NSA from decrypting that data? Or would it be done simply to make their lives a bit more of a PiTA to get the data they want? Markhov chain text generators

Re: Assistance for Eavesdropping Legally on Avian Carriers (AELAC)

2013-06-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-06-25, at 7:58 PM, Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: The memo provides an overview and principles regarding Lawful Intercept(LI) of networks using RFC 1149, A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers. National requirements are not addressed. Is scooping

Re: Assistance for Eavesdropping Legally on Avian Carriers (AELAC)

2013-06-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-06-25, at 8:24 PM, Caruso, Anthony acar...@mre-consulting.com wrote: Yes, if you can identify the source of the grains, you know origin and flight path prior to your lawn. NSA approach's is getting the pigeon shit off of everyone's lawn... Then I am in favour of PRISM. NSA: come

Re: Assistance for Eavesdropping Legally on Avian Carriers (AELAC)

2013-06-25 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2013-06-25, at 8:54 PM, Jason Hellenthal jhellent...@dataix.net wrote: Anyone got a pentagram packet and a weje board ? Be careful, when you pull out the chalk to draw a pentaGRAM around your data centre, that you don't – accidentally – draw a pentaGONE.

Re: why haven't ethernet connectors changed?

2012-12-20 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-12-20, at 12:13 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: Do these things need to have gig-e speeds? Probably not... for a lot even Bluetooth speeds are probably fine. But they do want to be really small and really inexpensive. Then run RS-422 or RS-485 over a single twisted pair. You don't even

Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points

2012-10-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
I'm looking for innovative ideas on how to find such a rogue device, ideally as soon as it is plugged in to the network. There was a SIGCOMM paper a few years back that described a scheme based on measuring the the ACK delays of TCP sessions. In a nutshell, you can detect nodes on the

Re: Detection of Rogue Access Points

2012-10-14 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-10-14, at 14:56 PM, Matthias Waehlisch wrote: do you mean http://conferences.sigcomm.org/imc/2007/papers/imc122.pdf ? That's the one!

Re: Asia's Fastest Communications Cable Comes Online

2012-08-24 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-08-24, at 10:33 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: If you can use 3ms to extract enough money out of the market to pay for a cable, that market is *way* too volatile in the first place. Heh. Think things are volatile now? Wait 'til they get it down to pico-payment based trading of

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-10 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
It is far preferable for the merchant to request ID and verify that the signature matches the ID _AND_ the picture in the ID matches the customer. In the late 1990s I had a Visa card from (I think) Citibank that had my picture embossed on the front of the card. I'm surprised this didn't

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-06-08, at 12:48 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I'm sorry, my brain doesn't hold that many passwords. Unless you're a savant, neither does yours. So what you're telling me and the rest of the world is impossible. https://agilebits.com/onepassword (1Password) is one solution to managing

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-06-08, at 1:02 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: Only if you have an OS you have to pay for: apple or ms. I don't pay for them. $WORK pays for them. If you're complaint is about 1Password not running on your particular operating systems, then pick a solution that *does* run on your OS. There

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-06-08, at 1:22 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: Does your password safe know how to change the password on each website every several months? Yes.

Password Safes

2012-06-08 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
On 2012-06-08, at 1:41 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: I run a website. If it can change it on mine, I'd like to understand how it manages to do that. I log in to your website, change my password, and the software picks up that I've changed the password and updates the safe accordingly. The

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