Re: External sanity checks

2011-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
uired by neustar sometime back) - http://www.webmetrics.com -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: And so it ends...

2011-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
in some > cases they'll be legacy space holders with no RSA with their region's RIR, > and because they won't be worried about eligibility for future RIR > allocations of v4 space...because there won't be any. > > ---------- >  Jon Lewis, MCP :)           |  I route >  Senior Network Engineer     |  therefore you are >  Atlantic Net                | > _ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_ > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Update Spamhaus DROP list from Cisco CLI (TCL)

2011-01-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
lt;mailto:tmag...@providecommerce.com> > > provide-commerce > 4840 Eastgate Mall > San Diego, CA  92121 > > ProFlowers<http://www.proflowers.com/> | > redENVELOPE<http://www.redenvelope.com/> | Cherry Moon > Farms<http://www.cherrymoonfarms.com/> | Shari's > Berries<http://www.berries.com/> > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Donating servers.. where?

2011-01-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
> feel free to contact me directly -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: The tale of a single MAC

2011-01-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
uplicated MACs across two physically different machines.  What are the > odds, that HP would dup¹d them and that both would eventually end up at my > shop?  Or maybe this type of thing isn¹t big of deal... ? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style

2010-12-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
service you can buy that from at least 4 or 5 nationwide landline providers, besides several cellphone providers. "Monopoly" is what there was like a decade back. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: UN mulls internet regulation options

2010-12-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ion-options.aspx > > > DISSENT = set interface null *1984* > * -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: off topic "Help"

2010-12-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
nherited. Does >   anybody know of anyone who would consider reconfiguring/fixing it. > >       It seems that all mail presented to it appears to be from >   "localhost", when i reject unautorized destinations, it rejects all >   mail. > >   Thanks in advance. >

Re: Windows Encryption Software

2010-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: > > Wow, sounds like TrueCrypt it is.not a single other app was suggested!!! > > Thank you gentlemen! > There's also PGP WDE (Whole Disk Encryption) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
f he'd like to reconsider it, given the new security threats we all face that have outdated that meme. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
And if I ever find the genius who came up with the "we are not the internet police" meme ... On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:19 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Let's put it this way. > > 1. If you host government agencies, provide connectivity to say a > nuclear power

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
traffic > profiles / signatures?  Deny all, unless flow (addresses/protocol/port) is > pre-approved / registered? > > What does the technical solution look like? > > Any solutions to maintain some semblance of freedom? > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Abuse@ contacts

2010-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
d by other SPs) are usually sent to a separate address and auto processed. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Cloud proof of failure - was:: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
@@@ /_// /^\ \\_\ @x@@x@| | |/ WW( ( ) )WW \/| |\| __\,,\ /,,/__ \||/ | | | jgs (__Y__) /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\//\/\\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re:

2010-11-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
; guys)... > > http://www.webmetrics.com/ -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Blocking International DNS

2010-11-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
nds. Otherwise no. > > /me waits for the knock at the door and the yell of "Search warrant, we > hear you're running an uncensored BIND" -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
dates referred to it seem more to be related to the routing > leaks on April 8th. Or do you have additional information? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
d records? While there is no obvious > indication of who made the change or for what reason, it's unlikely it was > accidental. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ing which was presented to congress So, lessigisms like "code is law" aside, I guess yes, it IS political now. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/16/internet-traffic-reportedly-routed-chinese-servers/ -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Low end, cool CPE.

2010-11-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
this to load balance three > satellite uplinks in Afghanistan, 2 Mbps each, but it will supposedly > handle much higher. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: BGP support on ASA5585-X

2010-11-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Juniper srx runs JunOS. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: > > Juniper Netscreen does, in case the OP is looking for alternatives. > > Best regards, Jeff -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Dutch Hotels Must Register As ISPs

2010-10-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
; on these businesses, expect to see wifi hotspots diminish. IMO, that > classification would be a bad thing. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ized blacklists run by dedicated organizations haven't solved > the problem yet, so I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to work out...) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: do you use SPF TXT RRs? (RFC4408)

2010-10-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
mitigation, or SPF .. or more likely both. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Copyright Enforcement DoS/DDoS Attacks

2010-09-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
in Outer Mongolia if they want to. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Copyright Enforcement DoS/DDoS Attacks

2010-09-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
attacks were > suddenly legal. > > -- > Brandon Galbraith > Voice: 630.492.0464 > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: IPv4 squatters on the move again?

2010-09-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
t another hosting company, setup the VPN server, > change the IPs their spam servers VPN to, and they're back in business. > When sales brought me their initial request, I really didn't believe it, but > I didn't have good enough cause to reject it. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ery much there - and if the port 25 filtering were to be taken out, you'd at once see the increase in spam volumes. --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ould likely increase a > bit.  but my guess, and i mean guess, is that the limiting parameter > could well be how many bots the perps can get, not how well those bots > are blocked. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
BCP38 / RFC2827 were created specifically to address some quite similar problems. And googling either of those two strings on nanog will get you a lot of griping and/or reasons as to why these aren't being more widely adopted :) --srs On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 7:47 AM, Zhiyun Qian wrote: > Suresh,

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2010-09-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
lr spamming"). This work appeared in this year's IEEE Security & > Privacy conference. You can take a look at it if you are interested (and > feedbacks are welcome): > > http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~zhiyunq/pub/oakland10_triangular-spamming.pdf -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Idea's for donating/recycling server hardware [Off-Topic]

2010-08-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ributions cannot go to religious or political organizations > per corp policy* > > Thanks! > > -wil > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Other NOGs around the world?

2010-08-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
and of course apricot (www.apricot.net) On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > SANOG (Southeast Asia) - http://www.sanog.org/ > > PACNOG (Pacific) - http://www.pacnog.org/ -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: net-neutrality

2010-08-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
> That would be rarther funny Sven, you buying IBM. Sweet dreams. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: net-neutrality

2010-08-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > hmm funny, it had the piratebay on it, the 3rd most visted .org domain in > the world, as well as number 7 or so on the list of most visted websites in > the entire world, until a few months ago. no, that doesnt matter as much as just h

Re: net-neutrality

2010-08-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ileged > and confidential and is intended only for the use of the individual or > individuals addressed. Any other use, dissemination, distribution or > copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. > > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Feds disable movie piracy websites in raids

2010-06-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 11:11 AM, Michael Painter wrote: > As randy said not too long ago, First they came for... No. Not Randy. That was pastor martin neimoller about the nazis. So, you just invoked godwin's law. Thread over. thank you suresh

Re: eur.army.mil net ops contact?

2010-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
or may not hear a status back, or get your AS unblocked >> Sit tight and wait, till then > > I am aware of this way, sure. I just hoped, there would be a more... > efficient way. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: eur.army.mil net ops contact?

2010-05-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
my guy contacts his base IT staff to bitch about his email His base IT staff escalates the bitching up through a long and twisty channel Then you may or may not hear a status back, or get your AS unblocked Sit tight and wait, till then -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Config and scheduled event management software?

2010-05-17 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
gt; > We are using a hodgepodge of homegrown stuff and RT but are outgrowing > it. > > What's good? What sucks? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: DDoS mitigation services from SPs

2010-04-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ng DNS records and prefixes should > be able to be advertised through BGP like normal. (Apparently, people > like to do funky DNS stuff to make this work and sometimes don't want > to do BGP in other scenarios.) > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > William McCall > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Mail Submission Protocol

2010-04-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
IDS result to redirect them to a > special web page to tell them, they have to do something. > > The main issue, it not to know which machines are hijacked, but to support > these machines. > > ----- Original Message - > From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" > To:

Re: Mail Submission Protocol

2010-04-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Log and monitor all that you can. And watch for a large number of IPs logging into an account over a day (over a set limit - even across country - that takes into account "home - blackberry - airport lounge - airport lounge in another country - hotel - RIPE meeting venue" type scenarios). And esp

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
or exim, it's mostly a place to hang the > various on-connect filter regimes. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
need on my router to do BGP, you have to ask the > fundamental question of how big your routing table will be. I don't see this > as any different. Its helpful to provide opinions when you are guided by > some data :) > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Its nanog and not an RFQ process or I'd have asked him that too :) On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:29 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: > I haven't seen the man ask support for messages/hour, 3M..10M..1B ? Or maybe > I missed this question? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:45 PM, todd glassey wrote: > On 4/12/2010 7:22 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> The man did say "carrier class" .. not "small webhost for four >> families and dog". > > yes he did Suresh ... meaning that something larger and

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
aning they are worthless from an evidence > perspective, something that we as network engineers are constrained by > as well. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
s your needs go for it. -suresh 2010/4/12 Alex Kamiru : > Suresh, > I am more interested in option 1 and would want opinion from those with > experience on that. > > -Original Message- > From: Suresh Ramasubramanian > To: Alex Kamiru > Cc: nanog >

Re: Carrier class email security recommendation

2010-04-12 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Areas that are key for me are centralized management and > reporting, carrier class performance, per mailbox policy and quarantine, > and favourable licensing for an MSSP. I know Ironport is rated highly in > this space but I find its per user licensing is not favourable for a > MSSP.

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-11 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ng consumers... Hell, funnily enough Susan Crawford warned at the time that the FCC action wouldn't stand up in court the way it was done. http://www.circleid.com/posts/comcast_vs_the_fcc_a_reply_to_susan_crawfords_article/ --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: BGP hijack from 23724 -> 4134 China?

2010-04-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
flow will > eventually >     partition the Internet sufficiently to break it beyond recognition. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Chris Grundemann wrote: > They are now using the phrase "Open > Internetworking" to describe their stance on the issue. How very sensible of ISOC. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?

2010-04-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:42 PM, James Bensley wrote: > > Also having the email account ipv3@gmail.com, thats not very useful? He's still got to reach the heights of IPv9 -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Books for the NOC guys...

2010-04-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Limoncelli, Hogan, and > Challup.  I may be biased, being married to Hogan. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: FTC / Nexband

2010-04-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > You only need to add PTR records for the addresses in use. > Not really the way most automated dns provisioning systems work today .. and where would they be without $GENERATE in bind? :) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: NEED ANY LINK OR SAMPLE TEMPLATE FOR ROUTINE NETWORK (ISP) MAINTENANCE PLAN

2010-03-16 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
all , i am not a document specialist, i come across > some requirement where i need to search for ...that is what all other people > do.. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector

2010-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
gt; queries/second is.. not to economically Dos someone, it's to > obliterate their service infrastructure. > > Sure, you could ALSO target something hosted (for instance) at > Amazon-AWS and increase costs by making lots and lots and lots of > queries, but that wasn't the point of w

Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector

2010-03-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ormal” but are > done so to drive compute, network, and storage utility billings in a cloud > model abnormally high." -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Hotels in Tampa

2010-02-26 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ons on good hotels that allow smoking? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
s already SS7 which is, essentially a centralized > layer of indirection for phone numbers. This was necessary in order to support -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Spamhaus and Barracuda Networks BRBL

2010-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
s should be on the list. Others have made claims > about its accuracy and say great things about it.  Others complain that > we unjustly block them, however, 99.9% of the people who are blocked and who > contact > us find a BOT in their network. > > > Sincerely, > > Dean Drako > CEO Barracuda Networks > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Spamhaus

2010-02-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
have false positives. Christ. You pick APEWS as a reputation filter.. and then even bother to *count* the false positives? That's not a list that's particularly designed to minimize FPs, to put it very mildly. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: The Internet Revealed - A film about IXPs v2.0: now available

2010-02-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 7:50 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> But, as a hyper-aware viewer I did detect a tone in favor of "network >> neutrality" type arguments- and I suppose that is OK. > > is this a bug or a feature bug -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Yahoo abuse

2010-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
abuse > report where the most important parts would be "type of abuse", "IP doing > the abuse", "time the abuse occured" and " happened>" that could be used by end users. Creating a new MIME type > precludes most end users from ever using it b

Re: Yahoo abuse

2010-02-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ddress is about a decade old. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: google contact? why is google hosting/supporting/encouraging spammers?

2010-02-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
es from/through google and google groups. > > is this accepted/supported activity on google? > > if not, where might i find a contact who can cluefully respond? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
on to the whole process, the > whole chain of information flow. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ly way to eliminate human error completely > is to eliminate the presence of humans in the activity. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
liminated.  One is too many." Automated config deployment / provisioning. And sanity checking before deployment. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Countries with the most botnets

2010-01-27 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ong with citable sources if possible. > > Ideally - number of zombified PCs, percentage of zombified PCs, name of > nation, source. > > Threat reports from symantec and macafee suggest the US leads, with > China a very close second. > > Yes, we realize that answers will

Re: Enhancing automation with network growth

2010-01-20 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ig/index files for itself, instead of me > having to  do it on each and every port change. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Virbl: The First IPv6 enabled dnsbl?

2010-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
zones serving up v6. --srs On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 9:20 PM, Mark Schouten wrote: > Hi, > > FYI: > > http://virbl.bit.nl/index.php#ipv6 > > Comments on the listing method are appreciated. > > Regards, -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
is what I believe you > actually meant. > fair enough. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > >> Additional mitigation would be  via manual or automatic RTBH or >> security/abuse@ involvement with upstreams. > > Automagic is generally bad, as it can be gamed. ... and manual wont scale in ddos -- Suresh Ra

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
ibm.com/aurora/ Now commercially available as http://www-01.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/netcool-performance-flow/ Full disclosure - I work for big blue - but not in any division that works on Aurora / Tivoli Netcool. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
d reasons I won't > get into now. > > 4. Indeed, were equipped to handle substantially higher than 150kpps. > > I'm sure Arbor is really neat but I disagree that any DDoS appliance is a > standalone solution. I don't expect an employee of the vendor themselves t

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Two more options. And for Netflow device - read that to mean Arbor or its competitors. 5 Ditch the stateful firewall and exclusively use a netflow device 6. Outsource to a hosted DDoS mitigation service (Prolexic etc) On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > Do

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
at the risk of a DDoS that exceeds your firewall's rated capacity is extremely low? [and yes, 150k ++ connections per second ddos is going to be massive, and relatively rare for most people] --srs -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2010-01-03 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > On 1/2/10 11:38 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> ... it would be interesting if some process were developed to >> deaccredit or otherwise kill off the shell registrars > > Suresh, Why? My comment was more i

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2010-01-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
CANN accreditations: eNom (116), Directi/PDR (47), Dotster > (51), and Snapnames (104). Source: http://www.knujon.com/registrars/ -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Are the Servers of Spamhaus.rg and blackholes.us down?

2010-01-02 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
If our friend here is checking for spamhaus.rg he's out of luck. I am sure he'll have better luck checking for spamhaus.ORG instead --srs On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 6:41 PM, John Peach wrote: > On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 12:28:41 +0100 (CET) > Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote: > >> > Are this Blacklistservers s

Re: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
t; - - ferg > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Legal_Assistance_Treaty -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
er issued by a competent court in a public hearing (and no, > administrative tribunals are not courts of law). > Wow. I always knew there existed some alternate universe where the RBN were actually the good guys. Didn't expect to find it so fast, and on nanog at that. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
; Are any of your customers multinationals? What would you do if a shell company (the european equivalent of a LLC with a UPS store address) came to you with a large sized PA netblock from out of region, and asked you to route it for them? -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
wrote: > Sounds like a snowshoe setup to me. > > Tony. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Tools BOF at NANOG-48

2009-12-21 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
s not to present details of tools, > but rather a rough taxonomy. Feel free to suggest tools you find useful. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers

2009-12-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
(or outbound) mail. > > Since the RDNS domain is different, and in fact generic,  which  helps > avoid  assisting the spammer  in identifying the IP as an  inbound > mail server. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Qwest mail admin contact?

2009-12-10 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
buse, relay, etc all seem to be > deadends. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Earthlink SMTP Admin Contact?

2009-12-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
s the same procedure as the mail administrator does which is > to e-mail blockedbyearthlink@ address with the subject BLOCKED: > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (replace with the ip) and if it is blocked they will unblock > you. Sadly, I tried that already. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-08 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
etc accounts >> 2. Spam generated by infected PCs / laptops, hacked machines etc on >> your campus LAN > > 3. Spammers abusing your webmail and/or remote message submission service > using phished credentials. -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
o a mail > server before determining where to forward the connection onto (Layer 7 > stuff, gets a bit tricky) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
e because of >> said issues. > > I'd prefer to not create a blacklist of hotels that have ghetto internet > access, but perhaps this is something we can aggregate? > > I'm mostly tired of people saying the internet is http(s) only.  Even had > hotels in Japan do

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
e paper on this, like he does on most other security related issues under the sun :) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: Remote hands requested near sherman oaks LA [urgent]

2009-12-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Remote hand found. Thank you.

Sherman Oaks CA - Re: Remote hands requested near sherman oaks LA [urgent]

2009-12-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Too damn early (5:23 AM) .. the box is at Sherman Oaks CA - near Los Angeles LA. Sigh. >> --Original Message-- >> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: Remote hands requested near sherman oaks LA [urgent] >> Sent: Dec 6, 2009 1

Remote hands requested near sherman oaks LA [urgent]

2009-12-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
elp' for a list of commands (initramfs): -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)

Re: SPF Configurations

2009-12-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:55 PM, Jeffrey Negro wrote: > I'm wondering if a few DNS experts out there could give me some input on > SPF record configuration.  Our company sends out about 50k - 100k emails > a day, and most emails are on behalf of customers to their end users at SPF records aren't g

Re: port scanning from spoofed addresses

2009-12-04 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:35 PM, Matthew Huff wrote: > We are seeing a large number of tcp connection attempts to ports known to > have security issues. The source addresses are spoofed from our address > range. They are easy to block at our border router obviously, but the number > and volume

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