Re: looking for feedback on virtual/dedicated server providers in latin/south america/UK

2014-02-18 Thread Sam Moats
I have to recommend Linode in the UK, from my experience they have their act together and their prices are reasonable. Sam Moats Circle Net On 2014-02-18 12:50, Carlos Kamtha wrote: Hi, Just wondering if anyone could share some experiences with server providers specifically in argentina

Re: carrier comparison

2014-02-06 Thread Sam Moats
+1 Same feeling here. Sam Moats On 2014-02-06 16:22, Matthew Crocker wrote: IMHO Cogent bandwidth is fine so long as it isn’t your only bandwidth. Good, Cheap, Fast, Pick any two. -- Matthew S. Crocker President Crocker Communications, Inc. PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 E: matt

Re: NSA able to compromise Cisco, Juniper, Huawei switches

2013-12-30 Thread Sam Moats
This might be an interesting example of it's (mis)use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_wiretapping_case_2004%E2%80%932005 Sam Moats On 2013-12-30 11:16, Enno Rey wrote: On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 04:03:07PM +, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Dec 30, 2013, at 10:44 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu

RE: Help me make sense of these traceroutes please

2013-12-27 Thread Sam Moats
Thanks to everyone who responded off list and on. Sam Moats On 2013-12-26 11:21, Josephson, Marcus wrote: Start at slide 50: This is documented further by the following Nanog presentation. http://www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog47/presentations/Sunday/RAS_Traceroute_N47_Sun.pdf -Marcus

Help me make sense of these traceroutes please

2013-12-24 Thread Sam Moats
and I want to understand it Thanks, Sam Moats

Re: Help me make sense of these traceroutes please

2013-12-24 Thread Sam Moats
On 2013-12-24 18:55, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2013-12-25 00:16, Sam Moats wrote: Hello Nanog community, I would like to enlist your help with understanding this latency I'm seeing. You are likely seeing the effects of asymmetric routing. That's what I was thinking to. [..] Tracing route

Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

2013-12-17 Thread Sam Moats
That's the day we decided we needed better edge routers :-).. I watch a modem pool infected with code red melt a cisco 3640. Had to throw a Linux box in it's place while I waited for Cisco equipment. Sam Moats On 2013-12-17 09:54, Blake Dunlap wrote: All I remember from the TNT days

Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

2013-12-13 Thread Sam Moats
I still have a soft spot for the Portmasters :-). We had rows of PM2's with US robotics 33.6K sportster modems attached on 8mm tape racks. Back when a town of 40K people could all connect through 2XT1's and everyone was happy. Sam Moats On 2013-12-13 16:59, Jon Lewis wrote: On Thu, 12 Dec

Re: do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

2013-12-12 Thread Sam Moats
I'm not sure about the current state of the industry it's been a while since I was responsible for an access network. In the past we would keep radius logs for about 4 months, these would include the username,IP address and yes (to date myself) the caller id of the customer at the time. Sam

Re: Automatic abuse reports

2013-11-13 Thread Sam Moats
as close to their customers as possible. As soon as you can drop that packet on the floor the better. The giant zombie bot armies are a pain to them to. Thats all I can think of at 4am, I bet you can see why nobody would ever appoint me big cheese of the internet. Sam Moats On 2013-11-13 00:57

Re: Automatic abuse reports

2013-11-13 Thread Sam Moats
There are good guys out there :-), and some are gorilla sized thats why I obfuscated the names in my response. No offense intended to the goood ones. Sam Moats On 2013-11-13 05:48, Paul Bennett wrote: I can't speak directly for them, as I'm not an official company spokesperson

Re: Automatic abuse reports

2013-11-13 Thread Sam Moats
Don't have access to a normal PC right now but I agreed with this approach so much that I'm typing a response on a 10 button pad. Sam On 2013-11-13 21:33, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Sam Moats s...@circlenet.us [1] wrote:   about its long term benefit to the entire

Re: Automatic abuse reports

2013-11-12 Thread Sam Moats
with this approach and I'm open to ideas! Thanks Sam Moats On 2013-11-12 16:58, Jonas Björklund wrote: Hello, We got often abuse reports on hosts that has been involved in DDOS attacks. We contact the owner of the host help them fix the problem. I also would like to start send these abuse

Re: Automatic abuse reports

2013-11-12 Thread Sam Moats
contacts may be. I'll keep my restrictive network settings for the time being. Sam Moats On 2013-11-12 20:43, William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Sam Moats s...@circlenet.us wrote: We used to use a small perl script called tattle that would parse out the /var/log/secure

Re: google / massive problems

2013-10-09 Thread Sam Moats
Works for me from Nova, Level3 and Cogent. Sam Moats On 2013-10-09 12:17, Anthony Williams wrote: Same. Works for me (WashDC/NoVA Area). -Alby On 10/9/2013 12:14 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: On 10/9/2013 9:00 AM, Blair Trosper wrote: Can someone from Google Drive or Gmail contact me off

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-07 Thread Sam Moats
wrote: --- s...@circlenet.us wrote: From: Sam Moats s...@circlenet.us There only options are to: Disobey the law, unacceptable in my opinion Close down services, noble but I need to eat and you probably want to keep getting email Compromise your principles and obey the law, the path often choosen

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
I believe you are correct, whatever technical hurdles we put in place will be overcome by policy. As long as you can legally require me to make my network intercept able for lawful purposes and are able to prevent me from explaining these purposes to my users any security that I would put in

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
True I shot from the hip, he does address the concerns later. I'm used to implementing technologies to solve security problems. It's just damn frustrating to have your hands tied in such a way that you can not and that's the position that I see myself and most other network ops in. Our

RE: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
+1 I couldn't have said it any better. Sam On 2013-09-06 10:27, Naslund, Steve wrote: The error in this whole conversation is that you cannot take it back as an engineer. You do not own it. You are like an architect or carpenter and are no more responsible for how it is used than the

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
I don't suggest a riot. I do believe in the rule of law, as a member of a democracy I need to accept that I will not always agree with the laws that are enacted. If we lived in China or somewhere else where there was no method to change laws that were unfair or unjust then yea I would support

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
This is part of the purpose behind the separation of powers between executive, legislative and judicial. William Pitt wrote Unlimited power is apt to corrupt the minds of those who possess it . As such constraints are needed and in place. We expect politician to cheat,lie,be stupid and self

Re: The US government has betrayed the Internet. We need to take it back

2013-09-06 Thread Sam Moats
opinion Close down services, noble but I need to eat and you probably want to keep getting email Compromise your principles and obey the law, the path often choosen. Sam Moats On 2013-09-06 13:20, Nicolai wrote: On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 02:27:32PM +, Naslund, Steve wrote: If everyone

Re: Parsing Syslog and Acting on it, using other input too

2013-08-29 Thread Sam Moats
the data in Mysql/Oracle but no-joy from splunk so that I can use other tools on it easily. +1 Free demo. You can download an eval version that is rate limited and cripples itself after a fixed time. -1 because The license costs are a bit high if your moving lots of data through it Sam Moats

Feds snooping and FCC 477 and FCC 499 forms and 214 licenses

2013-08-01 Thread Sam Moats
On 2013-08-01 10:57, Sam Moats wrote: Good Morning Nanog List, I'm not normally the tinfoil hat type howerver I do want to know other operators opinions on the FCC 477, 499 and the 214 license requirements in light of the recent revealations. Do you think the info is actually for the stated

FCC 477 and FCC499 forms

2013-08-01 Thread Sam Moats
Good Morning Nanog List, I'm not normally the tinfoil hat type howerver I do want to know other operators opinions on the FCC 477, 499 and the 214 license requirements in light of the recent revealations. Do you think the info is actually for the stated purposes? I'm trying hard not to become