Re: registry for onmicrosoft[dot]com

2024-03-07 Thread Mark Foster
Subdomain of a Microsoft domain name associated with a Microsoft product? Microsoft would be the only 'registry'. Perhaps ask them? It'd be a great thing, but i'm pretty sure it doesn't exist for public consumption. (would love to be proven wrong!) On 8/03/2024 9:26 am, Nicholas Warren

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-04-25 Thread Mark Foster
ot; warrantless surveillance program. The list of government abuse of civilian resources is colossal . Fighting against that isn’t political. It’s patriotic. -mel On Apr 25, 2021, at 12:02 AM, Mark Foster wrote:  On 25/04/2021 3:24 am, Mel Beckman wrote: This doesn’t sound good, no matte

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-04-25 Thread Mark Foster
On 25/04/2021 3:24 am, Mel Beckman wrote: This doesn’t sound good, no matter how you slice it. The lack of transparency with a civilian resource is troubling at a minimum. I’m going to bogon this space as a defensive measure, until its real — and detailed — purpose can be known. The secret

RE: DoD IP Space

2021-02-13 Thread Mark Foster
Apologies for the top-post to a bottom-thread; I blame Outlook. I was going to comment that in a couple of corporate network engineering roles I've had, the lack of the business case has always been to highlight that all the things we want to reach on the Internet can be accessed by IPv4. So

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-06 Thread Mark Foster
I respect this in principle, but hyperbole serves no-one - a smartphone only creates a "morass of privacy/security issues" if you let it. A basic smartphone can be had for less than $100 USD, which would give you calling, text messaging and emergency alerts. You don't need to spend many

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-03 Thread Mark Foster
On 2021-01-03 08:26, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: On Sun, 03 Jan 2021 18:59:37 +1300, Mark Foster said: In my mind it's simple.� The streaming companies need to have a channel within their streaming system to get a message to a 'currently active customer' (emergency popup notification that appears

Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study

2021-01-02 Thread Mark Foster
On 3/01/2021 2:41 am, Masataka Ohta wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: the Commission shall complete an inquiry to examine the feasibility of updating the Emergency Alert System to enable or improve alerts to consumers provided through the internet, including through streaming services. It is

Re: Widespread Firefox issues

2019-05-04 Thread Mark Foster
Official update from Mozilla: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ Mark. On 5 May 2019 5:50:19 AM NZST, "Valdis Klētnieks" wrote: >On Sat, 04 May 2019 10:46:41 -0700, Randy Bush said: >> >> to do it, i have to start ffox.��and 100 tabs will open and

Re: Comcast storing WiFi passwords in cleartext?

2019-04-24 Thread Mark Foster
On 25/04/2019 3:13 AM, Benjamin Sisco wrote: I think we all understand the value of using one’s own equipment and keeping the firmware up to date if one is in any way concerned about security. We all should also understand that in a managed environment such as an ISP there should be no

Re: Unsolicited LinkedIn requests

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Foster
> at 5:40 PM, John Levine wrote: > >> In article you >> write: >>> Agreed, and I do get unsolicited Linkedin requests quite often. >>> Sometimes, this is clearly the result of someone scraping a list like >>> NANOG in an effort to drum up new business/contacts. Those end up in >>> the >>>

Re: Unsolicited LinkedIn requests

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Foster
I got the same invite. Sharing your profile in order to make certain information available to potential customers, vendors, partners etc, is not an invitation to connect on the basis of a tenuous-at-best professional tie-in. I'm firmly in the camp of 'Use LinkedIn to remain connected with people

Re: Security issues based on post RIR allocation rules

2018-12-11 Thread Mark Foster
I'll simply endorse the 'stop judging an IP by it's RIR' approach. As a New Zealander (and APNIC is our RIR), having to convince US institutions that our subnets should not be blocked simply because they're out of the same /8 as those used by other Asian nations with poorer IP address

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-22 Thread Mark Foster
The person who owns the internet connection still has responsibility for what happens on it. So if the owners are educated to select reputable brands in order to prevent themselves from being implicated in a DDoS and liable for a fine or some other punitive thing, they 'vote with their feet'

Re: Why the internal network delays, Gmail?

2016-08-26 Thread Mark Foster
Hi Mel, There's another mailing list called 'mailop' which is probably more appropriate for email related problems, than NANOG. And in response to Nate: I was in contact with Google and after some convincing and detailed header information, they acknowledged that they are having internal MX

Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels

2016-06-09 Thread Mark Foster
On 10/06/2016 4:38 p.m., Mark Andrews wrote: It would be nice to live in a world where that were the case. However, the world we live in is run my bean counters, and the marketing department. IPv6 is a huge project that is seen by them as an unnecessary expense. Absolute BS. IPv6 has never

Re: BGAN Optimized Laptops

2015-09-10 Thread Mark Foster
On 11/09/2015 1:49 p.m., Roland Dobbins wrote: On 11 Sep 2015, at 8:14, Scott Weeks wrote: For example, send me everything but the flash and images. This is a preference setting on most Web browsers. Lynx works well for this, too, on *NIX systems, if the users can use a terminal.

Re: Setting Up a Looking Glass

2015-06-14 Thread Mark Foster
If only it wasn't on sourceforge? http://ow.ly/OhNcR (or the original link, http://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don’t-download-software-from-sourceforge-if-you-can-help-it/) On Sun, June 14, 2015 2:40 pm, Hicks, Byron wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/routerproxy/ Is my looking

Re: eBay is looking for network heavies...

2015-06-10 Thread Mark Foster
On 11/06/2015 4:46 p.m., Alex White-Robinson wrote: Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: On a slightly different note, however--while it's good to have an appreciation of the past and how we got here, I think it's wise to also recognize we as an industry have some challenges bringing

Re: Question about co-lo in APAC region

2015-05-06 Thread Mark Foster
I would support this. I've had a hand in supporting infrastructure located in India and even with a relatively competent partner, some challenges in timely issue resolution. My current employer operate facilities in Singapore, Malaysia and China with a lot more success (comparitively

Re: Google's Safe Browsing Alerts for Network Administrators

2015-01-08 Thread Mark Foster
I've had my team report false-positives with the Safe Browsing reports as well. On 9/01/2015 2:37 p.m., Michael Loftis wrote: My problem with Google's Safe Browsing alerts is that from the admin side they rarely are useful/useable. They make a big loud noisy complaint without ANYTHING to

Re: We hit half-million: The Cidr Report

2014-05-01 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, May 2, 2014 11:57 am, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: On May 1, 2014, at 4:10 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei jfmezei_na...@vaxination.ca wrote: Pardon my ignorance here. But in a carrier-grade NAT implementation that serves say 5000 users, when happens when someone from the outside tries to

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

2013-11-01 Thread Mark Foster
On Sat, November 2, 2013 6:44 am, David Miller wrote: On 11/01/2013 01:08 PM, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:43 AM, Anthony Junk anthonyrj...@gmail.com wrote: ... It seems as if both Yahoo and Google assumed that since they were private circuits that they didn't have to

Re: [SHAME] Spam Rats

2013-01-09 Thread Mark Foster
On 10/01/13 17:15, Karl Auer wrote: On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 21:14 -0600, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. wrote: FYI - I have a PTR for all IPs. Just general practice. All IPs actually in use, or all possible IPs in a network? If the latter, then it's not gunna fly for IPv6. Not at all. Not unless you

Re: Join my network on LinkedIn

2013-01-08 Thread Mark Foster
On 09/01/13 09:21, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 07:52:18PM +, Alex Brooks wrote: I've just had a reply saying that nanog at nanog.org has been added to their do not contact list. That means, assuming their processes work, the address will no longer receive any emails from

Re: Att funkyness

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Foster
Yep. 'no servers could be reached' for at least one domain that's hosted with them that i've come across. Appears to have been the case for 6 hours as of about 30 minutes ago, but just retested, fault appears to have cleared. On 16/08/12 02:17, jeff jones wrote: Anyone seeing issues with ATT

Re: Is Hotmail in the habit of ignoring MX records?

2012-07-26 Thread Mark Foster
On 26/07/12 20:35, Lou Katz wrote: On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 02:38:31AM -0500, Jimmy Hess wrote: On 7/26/12, Lou Katz l...@metron.com wrote: One of my users has reported incoming mail failures, which I finally tracked down. It turned out that Hotmail has seen fit to send the mail to his

Re: Looking for W7 whois freeware

2012-05-12 Thread Mark Foster
Set up http://www.the42.net/networkjack/ Point her browser at it. Problem solved? I drove the Ping, Traceroute, Dig and Whois requirements of a Tier 2/3 Helpdesk with this tool for several weeks - several years ago, I suppose, but I still have a copy running which I use occasionally when I'm

Re: SORBS?!

2012-04-07 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: how to report spam to Yahoo!

2012-03-22 Thread Mark Foster
I used to use this form semi regularly. It's behavior has changed in the last couple of months, after i'd finally gotten over the whole 'why can't I just forward them the email' thing and gotten used to copying and pasting the header and the body (seperately) into different fields on their

Re: time sink 42

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Foster
On 17/02/12 10:08, Randy Bush wrote: ok, this is horribly pragmatic, but it's real. yesterday i was in the westin playing rack and stack for five hours. an horrifyingly large amount of my time was spent trying to peel apart labels made on my portable brother label tape maker, yes peeling the

Re: Windows UDP packet generator software?

2011-12-22 Thread Mark Foster
I can imagine plenty of circumstances where someone might want by-protocol indications of service, rather than the relatively basic link-test that ICMP provides. Another vote for iperf Mark. On 23/12/11 08:36, Sean Harlow wrote: iperf might be able to do what you need and there are

Re: Range using single-mode SFPs across multi-mode fiber - was Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 47, Issue 56

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Foster
On 15/12/11 09:54, Justin M. Streiner wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2011, Keegan Holley wrote: inappropriate. We are attempting to use Juniper single-mode SFPs (LX variety) across multi-mode fiber. Standard listed distance is always for SFPs using the appropriate type of fiber. Does anyone out there

Re: Range using single-mode SFPs across multi-mode fiber

2011-12-14 Thread Mark Foster
On 15/12/11 16:38, Keegan Holley wrote: 2011/12/14 oliver rothschild orothsch...@gmail.com Thanks to all who responded to my clumsy first question (both on matters of etiquette and technology). The group I work with (we are a small project acting as a last mile provider) was in the midst of

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Foster
On 22/11/11 03:09, Tyler Haske wrote: I really appreciate the specific insights offered by Keegan and Valdis. - Linking me places to apply for jobs doesn't help. I'm aware of who is considered Tier I, and how to find their website. Don't limit yourself to Tier 1's on the outset. A lot of

Re: First real-world SCADA attack in US

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Foster
First https://ciip.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/a-list-of-reported-scada-incidents/ On 22/11/11 04:32, Jay Ashworth wrote: On an Illinois water utility: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45359594/ns/technology_and_science-security Cheers, -- jra

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-26 Thread Mark Foster
On 27/10/11 11:11, Mark Andrews wrote: In message op.v3y8xvo6tfh...@rbeam.xactional.com, Ricky Beam writes: On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:52:46 -0400, Alex Harrowell a.harrow...@gmail.com wrote: Why do they do that? You'd have to ask them. Or more accurately, you'd need to ask their system

RE: Mailing list/group for datacenter facilities folks

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Foster
Have found http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=gid=94108 to have some gems in it. I mention only because it's otherwise a case of YAML (that is, Yet Another Mailing List, not the logging format...) Of course, not everyone uses or likes LinkedIn. Mark. On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 16:09 -0400, Drew

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)

2011-08-25 Thread Mark Foster
Radio - That was very interesting to observe. Clearly radio stations don't have disaster broadcast plans in place for content. When you're crying out for information about what's going on, the very last think you want to hear is an inappropriate advert break. The number of stations that kept

Re: East Coast Earthquake 8-23-2011 - comment and a bit of a Christchurch Telco report :)

2011-08-25 Thread Mark Foster
On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Mark Foster wrote: Radio - That was very interesting to observe. Clearly radio stations don't have disaster broadcast plans in place for content. When you're crying out for information about what's going on, the very last think you want to hear is an inappropriate

Re: 365x24x7

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, April 22, 2011 1:38 pm, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:02 PM, Jeroen van Aart jer...@mompl.net wrote: Bill Stewart wrote: Rotating shifts between daytime and nighttime is a horrible thing to do to your workers, both for their health and their attention span. I Fully

Re: 365x24x7 (sleep patterns)

2011-04-15 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Jeff Shultz wrote: On 4/15/2011 10:11 AM, mikea wrote: My experience: 6 on, 2 off, 8 hours, rotating to the next later shift: I never, ever got enough sleep -- for 2 years. 6 on, 2 off, 12 hours, straight mids, no rotation: much less bad. 5 on, 2 off, 8 hours,

Re: Christchurch New Zealand

2011-02-24 Thread Mark Foster
I'm glad someone said something nice about Radio Hams on this thread (which started as being about Christchurch!) or i'd have risked polluting Christchurch's good rep with all this noise about whackers! FWIW AREC (NZ's ARES equivalent) are active in Christchurch, mainly on VHF, though there's

Re: Christchurch New Zealand

2011-02-21 Thread Mark Foster
Folks on Twitter should search for hashtag #eqnz. Major news sites in NZ: www.stuff.co.nz www.nzherald.co.nz www.tvnz.co.nz www.3news.co.nz Plenty of Vids, Stills and some Streaming available. Can confirm the reports of multiple casualties. TV News is live broadcasting reports of many folks

Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.

2010-05-11 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, May 12, 2010 4:38 am, Justin Wilson wrote: There are those ppl who just want to do e-mail, are comfortable with dial-up, don¹t want to pay for than $5-10 for internet, and can¹t get anything else. Indeed. The arguments for alternatives based on the fact theyre cheap, don't counter the

Re: Dial Concentrators - TNT / APX8000 R.I.P.

2010-05-10 Thread Mark Foster
Does this not highlight a wider issue? I realise that dialup is hardly 'cutting edge' but there are providers out there with a significant number of dialup customers still on the books. Surely there's still a market for (what should be by now) a straightforward, well known piece of kit? In parts

Re: Posting from freebie E-mail Accounts

2010-03-30 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, March 31, 2010 4:42 pm, Andrew D Kirch wrote: Is there anyone here who is legitimate using a freebie webmail account? I am proposing that the NANOG administration drop everything originating from commonly used webmail providers, and add further RHS filters as additional providers are

Re: Auto MDI/MDI-X + conference rooms + bored == loop

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Foster
Desktop switches. You know, those 4 or 5 port Gigabit Ethernet switches. Apparently, many of them don't do any kind of STP at all. Recommendations on ones that do STP? If the network fabric you're on is important enough to cause you grief in the event of a STP event, you shouldn't be

Re: Desperately Seeking APNIC

2010-03-04 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, March 5, 2010 11:37 am, Matthew Petach wrote: Would anyone here know of any 24x7 contact at APNIC? The TXT records indicate they just signed the reverse zone for 203.in-addr.arpa today, and the delegations for our IP blocks disappeared when they did; and the helpdesk is currently not

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread Mark Foster
Stateful firewalls make absolutely no sense in front of servers, given that by definition, every packet coming into the server is unsolicited (some protocols like ftp work a bit differently in that there're multiple bidirectional/omnidirectional communications sessions, but the key is that the

Re: Can someone from SORBS contact me offlist?

2009-07-11 Thread Mark Foster
On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Seth Mattinen wrote: Nuno Vieira - nfsi wrote: That's good to know. I'll avoid using it. Holy crap, what's with all the AHBL hate? At the very least they have a responsive human and - last time I checked - they don't require an exchange of money to get off the

Re: how to fix incorrect GeoIP data?

2009-05-01 Thread Mark Foster
I don't think self-reporting is the answer. You MIGHT be able to determine location based on a traceroute, though anycast would surely derail such attempts. I suspect most people rely on 3rd party GeoIP databases, and that those companies aren't interested in hearing from you about your

Re: Are you getting Spam from Crossfire Media?

2009-01-13 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, January 14, 2009 9:01 am, Graeme Fowler wrote: I think there's far less to this than meets the eye, personally. Just a predictably asinine salesperson believing that your presence online provides your consent for bulk email... have you contacted their CEO? I do have to ask though,

Re: Ethical DDoS drone network

2009-01-04 Thread Mark Foster
Refer earlier posts. End points ('drones') would have to be legitimate endpoints, not drones on random boxes. That eliminates legal liability client-side. If the traffic is non abusive then I don't see the risk for the network providers in the middle either. If it's clearly established that

Re: Looking for verification that Google and Akamai have the geo-ip for 96.31.0.0/20 set correctly

2009-01-02 Thread Mark Foster
Funny this should come up... I've found that a local Mobile Broadband outfit here in NZ are using an IP range that Akamai's Geolocation service thinks is actually in New Jersey. Causes me some oddness as a result - this despite the fact that Maxmind has it correct. Whilst investigating this

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

2008-12-25 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008, Martin Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Frank Bulk - iName.com frnk...@iname.comwrote: I don't think there would be a concern about off-shore support if we couldn't tell it was off-shore. You can't tell most of the time. The point that is relevant

Re: Why do some companies get depeered and some don't?

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Foster
I'm sure someone else must've seen it before. Surely even assymetric peering agreements are mutually beneficial... ISPs are also content providers, either directly or through their customers... peering is going to have a flow-on effect in terms of reducing the cost of offering content to the

Re: ingress SMTP

2008-09-12 Thread Mark Foster
Blocking port 25 has become popular, not only with walled-garden connectivity services that are really scared of their customers running their own servers (e.g. most cable modem companies), but also with other ISPs that don't want to deal with the problems of having customers who are spamming

Re: ingress SMTP

2008-09-05 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Simon Waters wrote: If the ISP blocks port 25, then the ISP is taking responsibility for delivering all email sent by a user, and they have to start applying rate limits. MUAs should stop sending email via 25 and use 587 or

Re: ingress SMTP

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Foster
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 02:01:48PM +1200, Mark Foster wrote: So in terms of the OP, I don't see why joe-user on a dynamic-IP home connection should need the ability to use port 25 to talk to anywhere but their local ISP SMTP server on a normal basis[1]. Whats a normal basis? My Home ISP

Re: ingress SMTP

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 12:58:53PM -0400, Nicholas Suan wrote: On Sep 3, 2008, at 12:49 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: You're forgetting that 587 *is authenticated, always*. I'm not sure how that makes much of a difference since the usual spam vector is malware that has (almost) complete

Re: Cable Colors

2008-06-16 Thread Mark Foster
On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Joe Greco wrote: Speaking of cables and veering off towards cable-making, I was wondering what people thought of the so-called EZ RJ45 stuff. One of the hazards of doing long-term cut-to-length wiring is that if a crimp really goes wrong, you might