Re: Someone's scraping NANOG for phishing purposes again

2017-02-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> wrote: > Thank you for the notice. > > Josh Luthman > Office: 937-552-2340 <(937)%20552-2340> > Direct: 937-552-2343 <(937)%20552-2343> > 1100 Wayne St > Suite 1337 > Troy, OH 45373 > > On Feb 10, 2017 12:42

Someone's scraping NANOG for phishing purposes again

2017-02-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I'm getting suspicious e-mail pretending to come from leading NANOGers. Not the first time this has happened, but you may want to be warned. Yours, Alex Harrowell

Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-29 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This is a really interesting thread; my telco clients are mad keen on various solutions of this general form. As a rule they would love to consolidate their various SME and enterprise CPEs down to a single x86 box that gets configured with VNFs from a central VIM or container pool. But they'd also

Re: ATT Mobile Outage San Juan, PR 8+ hours, 1 Million out.

2016-05-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
you mean there's an outages.org outage? [sorry] On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Nathan Schrenk wrote: > It looks like www.outages.org stopped being updated with outage data in > January 2013? > > Nathan > > On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 3:57 PM, Bill Woodcock

Re: Fiber to the home specialists/consultants?

2016-02-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Diffraction? (i.e. Benoit Felten's company) http://www.diffractionanalysis.com/services/what-we-do On Thu, Feb 11, 2016 at 2:28 PM, Fletcher Kittredge wrote: > Since two asked: Tilson > > > On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 8:14 PM, Jeremy Austin

Re: Marriott wifi blocking

2014-10-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 4:32 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Hugo, I still don't think that you have quite made it to the distinction that we are looking for here. In the case of the hotel, we are talking about an access point that connects via 4G to a cellular carrier. An access

Re: GMail contact - misroute / security issue

2014-09-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Related oddness: if you're British and a GMail user, you either got a gmail.com username before the lawsuit, or you got a googlemail.com between the lawsuit and the point when Google and the owner of the gmail trademark settled, or then you got a gmail.com again. Google chose to alias

Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity

2014-08-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:52 AM, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:16:36AM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 28-Jul-2014 8:06 am, Matt Palmer mpal...@hezmatt.org wrote: On Sun, Jul 27, 2014 at 05:28:08PM -0700, Richard Bennett wrote: It's more

Re: What Net Neutrality should and should not cover

2014-05-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 8:25 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Charles N Wyble char...@thefnf.org wrote: On 4/27/2014 3:30 PM, John Levine wrote: In a non-stupid world, the cable companies would do video on demand through some combination of content caches

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-18 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 17/07/13 23:52, Jeff Walter wrote: On 7/17/13 1:59 PM, Alex Harrowell wrote: On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided

Re: Friday Hosing

2013-07-17 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 15/07/13 01:09, Tony Patti wrote: TWELVE years ago (press release March 20 2001), Comcast deployed Linux-based Sun Cobalt Qube appliances as CPE with their business-class Internet service, these provided firewall security, web caching, optional content filtering, an e-mail server, a web

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-07 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 03/02/13 05:55, Frank Bulk wrote: Yes, but IP TV is not profitable on stand-alone basis -- it's just a necessary part of the triple play. A lot of the discussion has been about Internet and network design, but not much about the other two plays. I've certainly heard FTTH deployers mention

Re: The Department of Work and Pensions, UK has an entire /8

2012-09-19 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 19/09/12 08:04, goe...@anime.net wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2012, Mark Andrews wrote: In message pine.lnx.4.64.1209182339200.5...@sasami.anime.net, goe...@anime.ne t writes: On Tue, 18 Sep 2012, Owen DeLong wrote: On Sep 18, 2012, at 21:11 , Mike Hale eyeronic.des...@gmail.com wrote: this is

Re: F-ckin Leap Seconds, how do they work?

2012-07-02 Thread Alex Harrowell
On 02/07/12 16:47, AP NANOG wrote: Do you happen to know all the kernels and versions affected by this? 2.6.26 to 3.3 inclusive per news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4183122

Re: How to fix authentication (was LinkedIn)

2012-06-21 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 21 Jun 2012 04:16:22 Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org Yes, but you're securing the account to the *client PC* there, not to the human being; making

Re: Dear Linkedin,

2012-06-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
The Cambridge University Computer Lab has had a crack at this question in their Technical Report 817 on Web authentication: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/techreports/UCAM-CL-TR-817.html Their conclusion is to use the Mozilla password manager (or close analogue, but they like it because it's open

Re: Muni Fiber (was: Re: last mile, regulatory incentives, etc)

2012-03-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 1:45 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Jacob Broussard shadowedstrangerli...@gmail.com wrote: Who knows what technology will be like in 5-10 years? That's the whole point of what he was trying to say. Maybe wireless carriers

L3 consequences of WLAN offload in cellular networks (was - endless DHCPv6 thread)

2011-12-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
In the DHCP v6 thread, there was some discussion of mobility and its IP layer consequences. As various people pointed out, cellular networks basically handle this in the RAN (Radio Access Network) and therefore at layer 2, transparently (well, as much as things ever are) for IP purposes. It

Re: Network device command line interfaces

2011-11-28 Thread Alex Harrowell
Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: One of the biggest benefits to a CLI is the ability to easily script tasks. In a Cisco environment I can roll out major changes to hundreds of switches in seconds, for example. A lot of network vendors have been trying to make network devices more simple and

Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

2011-11-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Monday 21 Nov 2011 20:27:55 Owen DeLong wrote: I suspect that mDNS/Rendezvous will become much more widespread in the IPv6 household and will become the primary service discovery mechanism. It actually works quite well and is relatively resilient to either frequent renumbering or the

Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers

2011-10-25 Thread Alex Harrowell
Ricky Beam jfb...@gmail.com wrote: Works perfectly even in networks where a VPN doesn't and the idiot hotel intercepts port 25 (not blocks, redirects to *their* server.) --Ricky Why do they do that? -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sunday 25 Sep 2011 23:37:20 Nick Hilliard wrote: On 25/09/2011 12:39, Alexander Harrowell wrote: I think a special mention should go to hardware vendors who adopt this dreadful practice in network equipment. I recently encountered an enterprise-grade WLAN router from vendor D that has

Re: Nxdomain redirect revenue

2011-09-25 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sunday 25 Sep 2011 04:09:22 Jimmy Hess wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Cameron Byrne cb.li...@gmail.com wrote: Just an fyi for anyone who has a marketing person dreaming up a big nxdomain redirect business cases, the stats are actually very very poor... it does not make much

Re: wet-behind-the-ears whippersnapper seeking advice on building a nationwide network

2011-09-18 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Saturday 17 Sep 2011 22:37:46 Randy Bush wrote: one to post overly aggressive defensive messages on nanog I am not convinced that Mr. Bush is best placed to comment on this particular issue. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining

Re: CGN and CDN (was Re: what about the users re: NAT444 or ?)

2011-09-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 09 Sep 2011 16:25:35 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:09:38 EDT, Jean- francois.tremblay...@videotron.com said: A very interesting point. In order to save precious CGN resources, it would not be surprising to see some ISPs asking CDNs to provide a

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 07 Sep 2011 17:17:10 Network IP Dog wrote: FYI!!! http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/microsoftpri0/2016132391_microsoft_dee ms_all_diginotar_certificates_untrust.html Google and Mozilla have also updated their browsers to block all DigiNotar certificates, while Apple has

Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics

2011-09-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Monday 05 Sep 2011 15:53:38 Owen DeLong wrote: This is true in terms of whether you care or not, but, if one just looks at whether it changes the content of the FIB or not, changing which arbitrary tie breaker you use likely changes the contents of the FIB in at least some cases. The key

Re: DDoS - CoD?

2011-09-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tuesday 06 Sep 2011 09:14:26 Greg Chalmers wrote: Could be legitimate CoD servers responding to a spoofed query? My first thought looking at the packet dump. Interesting that some poor sap's hotmail address is embedded in it. How much traffic are you talking about out of curiosity?

RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?

2011-08-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Eric Krichbaum e...@telic.us wrote: I have a 12 pack of single mode run between wiring closets upstairs and downstairs. Only one server running feeding media to my xbmc's everywhere but quite a bit on gig. Nothing overly noisy unless you have your head in the closets. Eric Anyone got

Communications networks will be closed down

2011-08-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/2011/08/uk-riots-david-cameron- announces-his-prescription/ I feel this is operational or at least potentially so. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Monday 08 Aug 2011 22:00:52 Owen DeLong wrote: On Aug 8, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Mohacsi Janos wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 10:15:17 +0200, Mohacsi Janos said: - Home users - they usually don't know what is subnet. Setting up

Re: IPv6 end user addressing

2011-08-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 10 Aug 2011 14:57:54 Jeroen Massar wrote: PS: the more power to your kids if they can sniff the network for your 'adult content', decode it, and then actually watch it Indeed; I'd be more interested in making sure that, say, you can efficiently multicast the live footy to two

Re: Ready For A Good Laugh

2011-06-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 10 Jun 2011 05:31:44 Michael Painter wrote: Jimi Thompson wrote: Now I'm going to go off on you people - What kind of crack are you people smoking? The same stuff they're smoking over at PayPal. Some genius decided to send out E-mails which said: Hello name removed, It

Re: IPv6 SEO implecations?

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tuesday 29 Mar 2011 17:54:27 Wil Schultz wrote: On Mar 29, 2011, at 3:51 AM, Franck Martin wrote: And here's a breakdown of which user agents are seen on which ip, as you can see the user-agent doesn't exactly match IP range. Googlebot-Image/1.0 Mozilla/5.0 (compatible;

Re: DWDM Metro Access Design

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
What's the constraint that rules out using SONET or something similar, which is designed to give you a robust ring topology? I think it's probably quite important to know whether that's really, absolutely out of the question, or whether it's a possibility to relax that in favour of a less

Re: IPv6? Why, you are the first one to ask for it!

2011-03-02 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 03:03:22 JC Dill wrote: I *love* using Bozo filters. Anytime you can trick companies into revealing their true colors, you are a step ahead in the game. jc AKA the Brown MM gambit. -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
There are major GSM-land wireless operators who provide service to devices like Novatel's line of pocket-size WLAN hotspots. You can just buy one and stick a SIM in it, but some of the ops offer them as part of a business user package. I hope that means they get a proper IP or more handed out

Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 11 February 2011 15:00:57 Scott Helms wrote: While Facebook working over IPv6 will be a big deal you won't get all of their traffic since a significant fraction of that traffic is from mobile devices which are going to take much longer than PCs to get to using IPv6 in large

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 28 January 2011 20:36:30 George Bonser wrote: -Original Message- From: Jake Khuon [mailto:kh...@neebu.net] Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:07 PM To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 11:27 -0500,

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 28 January 2011 21:22:55 Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:51 PM, Alastair Johnson a...@sneep.net wrote: For instance, our corporate WAN links into Cairo are still up (UUNET

Re:

2010-12-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Monday 13 December 2010 17:02:59 Atticus wrote: Cc I presume this is some sort of spam-test? -- The only thing worse than e-mail disclaimers...is people who send e-mail to lists complaining about them signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
I'll bet that is a political statement, against list rules. Larry is currently making up a really high percentage of list traffic and this is beginning to annoy. L Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 6/13/2010 15:54, Joe Greco wrote: If we want to be pedantic, Sony this year

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This would appear to be political in nature and therefore not operational, right? Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.net wrote: On 6/9/2010 08:21, Joe Greco wrote: Your car emits lots of greenhouse gases. Just because it's /less/ doesn't change the fact that the Prius has an ICE. We have a

Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
No, but we can and do require cars to have functional brakes and minimum tread depths, and to be tested periodically. Obviously this is acceptable because the failure modes for cars are worse, but the proposed solution is less intrusive being after the fact. Excuse topposting, on mobile. Joe

Re: Starting up a WiMAX ISP

2010-04-28 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 28 April 2010 03:13:24 John R. Levine wrote: Of course what they offer over those long long rural runs and what they can actually provide are two different things. DSL performance decreases with distance rather dramatically.. That's what I thought, but my friend out on

Re: T1 aggregation and data center gateways

2010-03-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 14:09:18 Tim Franklin wrote: Isn't that just CYA? Thank the lawyers and corporate compliance offices and professional whiners. The obvious answer is that if your corporate email policy makes you look like an idiot, post to mailing lists from a personal email

Re: Adopt‐an‐Haitian‐Interne t‐technician‐or‐facility

2010-02-08 Thread a . harrowell
-original message- Subject: Re: Adopt‐an‐Haitian‐Internet‐technician‐or‐facility From: Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu Date: 08/02/2010 5:47 pm As a matter of form, how might one check out the legitimacy of requests like this? (No, I don't think this one is fake...) As a start, web of

Re: lawful intercept/IOS at BlackHat DC, bypassing and recommendations

2010-02-04 Thread a . harrowell
-original message- Subject: Re: lawful intercept/IOS at BlackHat DC, bypassing and recommendations From: andrew.wallace andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com Date: 04/02/2010 11:09 pm On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:19 PM, Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org wrote: That peer-review is the basic purpose of my

Re: dark fiber and sfp distance limitations

2010-01-01 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Friday 01 January 2010 23:19:30 Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 02:52:33PM -0800, Mike wrote: I am looking at the possibility of leasing a ~70 mile run of fiber. I don't have access to any mid point section for regeneration purposes, and so I am wondering what the

Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tuesday 29 December 2009 22:22:05 Randy Bush wrote: None of us knows precisely what we're going to absolutely require, or merely want/prefer, tomorrow or the next day, much less a year or two from now. Unless, of course, we choose to optimize (constrain) functionality so tightly around

Re: FTTH Active vs Passive

2009-12-02 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Another issue - how far does the technology support open access/infrastructure sharing/wholesaling? Not only are networks that get public funding likely to be expected to provide these, but there is evidence that they are important financially. Benoit Felten's presentation at eComm Europe

Re: ISP port blocking practice

2009-10-24 Thread a . harrowell
-original message- Subject: Re: ISP port blocking practice From: Owen DeLong o...@delong.com Date: 24/10/2009 4:00 am Yes. Owen On Oct 23, 2009, at 2:19 PM, Lee Riemer wrote: Isn't blocking any port against the idea of Net Neutrality? Only if you take a legalistic view of it. Too much of

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 22 October 2009 12:38:11 Chris Edwards wrote: On Thu, 22 Oct 2009, Alex Balashov wrote: | Understood. I guess the angle I was going more for was: Is this | actually practical to do in a country with almost as many Internet users | as the US has people? | | I had always assumed

Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility

2009-10-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 07 October 2009 00:27:55 Joe Greco wrote: Assuming that the existence of an infected PC in the mix translates to some sort of inability to make a 911 call correctly is, however, simply irresponsible, and at some point, is probably asking for trouble. ... JG Also, someone

Re: operations contact @ facebook?

2009-10-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
This is a classic case of one of the problems of the increasingly numerous and powerful Web dev platforms - as you let other people either control your app through an API, or even write code that executes on the server-side, you're increasing the cycles available to an attacker. It's similar to

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 23:16:17 Robert Enger - NANOG wrote: As tedious as the downstream can be, engineering the upstream path of a cable plant is worse. A lot of older systems were never designed for upstream service. Even if the amps are retrofitted, the plant is just not tight enough.

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 27 August 2009 15:04:59 Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 09:58:22AM +0100, Alexander Harrowell wrote: An interesting question: as the population gets sparser, the average trench mileage per subscriber increases. At some point this renders fibre

Re: dnscurve and DNS hardening, was Re: Dan Kaminsky

2009-08-06 Thread Alexander Harrowell
There are really two security problems here, which implies that two different methods might be necessary: 1) Authenticate the nameserver to the client (and so on up the chain to the root) in order to defeat the Kaminsky attack, man in the middle, IP-layer interference. (Are you who you say you

Re: cisco.com

2009-08-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Up via Sprintlink in London... signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: EU elections - piratenpartei.net censored

2009-06-07 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sunday 07 June 2009 23:16:12 Peter Dambier wrote: Hello, right during the election the website piratenpartei.net of the german pirates party gets censored by the hoster. alfahosting.info Good advertising, isn't it? Interestingly enough their website is down too. Afraid of emails I

Re: Looking for ATT / Verizon / Sprint WWAN service impressions - on or off-list replies welcome

2009-04-16 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 16 April 2009 03:08:52 Eddie wrote: Also interested in similar information on impressions of similar EMEA WWAN service providers, particularly Vodaphone and T-Mobile, if anyone has experiences with these. I regularly use 3UK (Hutchison)'s data service. £10 gets you 15GB of xfer

Verizon EVDO issues

2009-04-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 09 April 2009 15:31:10 Daniel Senie wrote: On Apr 9, 2009, at 7:15 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: Interesting. When I got my Sprint EVDO card (u727) a year and a half ago, they were pretty nasty about gunning down (bidirectional spoofed RST coming out of the middle of the

Re: Do we still need Gi Firewall for 3G/UMTS/HSPA network ?

2009-04-09 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thursday 09 April 2009 16:48:32 Lee, Steven (NSG Malaysia) wrote: Hi all, in most of the existing 2G/2.5G mobile PS-core (Packet Switch) networks have Gi segment (interface between GGSN IP Router/firewall). Due to the IP address constraint, operator usually do NAT on the Gi firewall to NAT

Re: Verizon EVDO Issues

2009-04-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 22:10:24 Charles Wyble wrote: Been troubleshooting a very strange problem for a couple of weeks now. I have a few hundred systems deployed throughout the United States utilizing EVDO connectivity with Verizon as a carrier. They are stationary. Over the past few weeks

Re: Netflix, Blockbuster, and streaming content ... what impact?

2009-03-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Regarding OnLive, the short answer would appear to be that it's like streaming video, but more latency-critical.

Re: Seeking Connectivity in IRAQ

2009-03-19 Thread Alexander Harrowell
NewSkies' NSS703 is apparently intended to cover Turkey and Iraq especially well; www.talia.net and probably many others resell the service, or you can buy it directly (http://www.newskies.com/ipsyssolutions.htm). Perhaps you could say what kind of connectivity you need? As various people have

Re: Yahoo and their mail filters..

2009-02-26 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:28 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: This also pre-dates organized crime becoming heavily involved, and pre-dates the obsession with browser exploits. Back then a lot of spam was sent by semi-legitimate marketers from the US. These days all the bad guys are

Re: 97.128.0.0/9 allocation to verizon wireless

2009-02-08 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Leo Bicknell: Lastly, you've assumed that only a smart phone (not that the term is well defined) needs an IP address. I believe this is wrong. There are plenty of simpler phones (e.g. not a PDA, touch screen, read your e-mail thing) that can use cellular data to WEP browse, or to fetch

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-25 Thread a . harrowell
-original message- Subject: Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress) From: Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com Date: 25/01/2009 10:16 pm I think each point above is true -- BCP38 is indeed a technique, but failure to universally implement it defaults to (almost) a

Hushmail postmaster

2009-01-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Harrowell

Re:

2009-01-12 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Stop Making sense?

Re: Telecom Collapse?

2008-12-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Solar is civil defence - that goes for Node Bs as well as citizens. In the UK, I have absolutely no confidence in the reliability of our major cable op, because everywhere I go I find their street cabinets broken into, presumably by scum looking for copper (how long will they take to respond to

Re: Telecom Collapse?

2008-12-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Michael Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We haven't really had a major catastrophe where we've been totally dependent on IP yet, AFIAK. Maybe all of the qos, call gapping and the rest of the stuff the TDM networks do to deal with disasters will be left in

Re: Prefix Hijack Tool Comaprision

2008-11-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
It may be the North American NOG, but it's been said before that it functions as a GNOG, G for Global. I don't think Brazil is insignificant. I respect Todd's work greatly, but I think he's wrong on this point. - original message - Subject:Re: Prefix Hijack Tool Comaprision From:

Re: Prefix Hijack Tool Comaprision

2008-11-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Harrowell wrote: It may be the North American NOG, but it's been said before that it functions as a GNOG, G for Global. I don't think Brazil is insignificant. I respect Todd's work greatly, but I think he's wrong on this point. you misread me. i did not say that brazil was insignificant. it's

Re: Internet partitioning event regulations (was: RE: Sending vs r equesting. Was: Re: Sprint / Cogent)

2008-11-05 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Have we yet had a peering war that was genuinely international, i.e. the partition was between net X in country Y and net Z in country W? Rather than between X's Y and Z's Y divisions, which wd both be in Y jurisdiction? - original message - Subject:Re: Internet partitioning event

Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

2008-09-15 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 7:13 AM, Jim Mercer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: oddly enough, the ISP's in the region have not caught on to the potential winfall of providing cost effective hosting locally, so therefore, the bulk of the hosting for companies in the region is primarily done in the US,

Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

2008-06-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Well, at least the new TLDs will promote DNS-based cruft filtration. You can already safely ignore anything with a .name, .biz, .info, .tv suffix, to name just the worst. If only there was a way to get the cruft to move over into the new ones... On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:05 PM, John Levine [EMAIL

Re: [NANOG] [Nanog] P2P traffic optimization Was: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics [Was: Re: ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010]

2008-04-24 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 2:38 PM, Mike Gonnason [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This idea is what I am concerned about. Until the whole copyright mess gets sorted out, wouldn't these iTracker supernodes be a goldmine of logs for copyright lawyers? They would have a great deal of information about

Re: [Nanog] Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics [Was: Re: ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010]

2008-04-23 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Christopher Morrow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It strikes me that often just doing a reverse lookup on the peer address would be 'good enough' to keep things more 'local' in a network sense. Something like: 1) prefer peers with PTR's like mine (perhaps get

Re: [Nanog] Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics [Was: Re: ATT VP: Internet to hit capacity by 2010]

2008-04-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
NCAP - Network Capability (or Cost) Announcement Protocol. On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I know, replying to your own email is sad ...) You could probably do this with a variant of DNS. Use an Anycast address common to everyone to solve the

Re: Dubai impound ships suspected in cable damage

2008-04-13 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Lots - for values of lots including practically all - of ships use the AIS (Automatic Identification System), which broadcasts various details on radio. For an example application, try www.aisliverpool.org.uk On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 6:44 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:16:57

Re: cooling door

2008-03-30 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Buhrmaster, Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 10-20mW (or more) of nuclear power/gensets. While I would be much amused to see the response in the area when Paul requested approval to site a nuclear reactor on the Peninsula, I do not think even Paul is quite

Re: SMTP addresses in

2008-01-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Jan 4, 2008 5:52 PM, Andrew Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I completely agree. If it weren't for that philosophy, we wouldn't have an email problem at all. A Becausewe wouldn't have e-mail? Consider the pain of getting worldwide interoperability for a notmail system that

Is anyone aware of recent by-protocol traffic data in the public domain?

2007-12-04 Thread Alexander Harrowell
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Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Nov 27, 2007 3:28 PM, John Musbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 27, 2007 6:38 AM, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: France anti-piracy initiative http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/index-olivennes231107.htm I don't understand, how in the world do they plan to

Re: Comcast blocking p2p uploads

2007-10-23 Thread Alexander Harrowell
Good idea, but there's a trust issue. If I were Comcast I might configure the box to lie about our backhaul network in order to spork the p2pers. On 10/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of an obvious way for a p2p client to detect this. Work through middleboxes

Re: Can P2P applications learn to play fair on networks?

2007-10-22 Thread Alexander Harrowell
MSO's typically understand this as eyeball heavy content retrieval, not content generation I was under the impression Comcast advertised Internet access, which is read/write. Clearly I was mistaken... Really, the heart of the matter is that in doing this they are not being honest with their

Re: shameful-cabling gallery of infamy - does anybody know where

2007-09-10 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On Mon Sep 10 1:14 , Jay Hennigan sent: Vinny Abello wrote: One of the stranger things a field tech of ours encountered wasn't necessarily bad wiring (although it's not great), but the fact that the demarc was located next to the toilet in the bathroom. Naturally, the constant

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-17 Thread Alexander Harrowell
On 6/17/07, Frank Bulk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the 2+ years I have been working for an ISP I'm not aware of one customer that has gone over to one of our competitors because we identified and cut them off for an abuse issue. Most of them have been very grateful that we identified a