Re: Out-of-Bailiwick DNS? (Was: HE.net problem)

2024-07-06 Thread bzs
FWIW I think TLDs should cost much more, like millions, other than where they provide legitimate internationalization or specific community service functions (TBD.) 1. They're just polluting the name space, many seem frivolous like .RODEO or .FISHING (yeah those are real.) 2. Vanity corporate T

List of GMAIL DNS *clients*?

2024-02-29 Thread bzs
Occasionally one of our log analyzers will block gmail DNS requests causing bounces when gmail claims our domain(s) are not authenticated, they can't get to our SPF etc. I'd like to whitelist them but does anyone know the list of IP blocks I need? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

2024-01-16 Thread bzs
For completeness' sake at the first commercial ISP to sell individual dial-up to the public, The World, we had six of those typical desktop 2400bps modems (I forget the brand tho I still have them, a photo also I think) sitting on a file cabinet in an office space in Brookline, MA plugged into a

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

2024-01-16 Thread bzs
Others have pointed to references, I found some others, it's all pretty boring but perhaps one should embrace the general point that some equipment may not like abrupt temperature changes. But phones (well, modern mobile phones) don't generally have moving parts. So the issue is more likely wit

Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

2024-01-15 Thread bzs
Something worth a thought is that as much as devices don't like being too hot they also don't like to have their temperature change too quickly. Parts can expand/shrink variably depending on their composition. A rule of thumb is a few degrees per hour change but YMMV, depends on the equipment. S

Re: .US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

2023-11-02 Thread bzs
On November 2, 2023 at 22:09 al...@allan.vin (Allan Liska) wrote: > I think it is a matter of proportionality. > > According to Spamhaus malicious domains account for only 1.5% of all .com > domains, but 4.8% of all .us domains > (https://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/tlds/) - compare that

Re: Guest Column: Kentik's Doug Madory, Last Call for Upcoming ISOC Course + More

2023-09-09 Thread bzs
One could argue that much of this behavior was the result of most of the internet preferring free, or nearly free, to paying for services so all this jiggery-pokery evolved to try to make money to pay for services and generate profits. I suppose in theory one could argue they could have charged

Re: IP range for lease

2023-07-10 Thread bzs
On July 5, 2023 at 19:06 nanog@nanog.org (Owen DeLong via NANOG) wrote: > Karin, > > Opinions regarding leasing vary throughout the industry. In my opinion, since > the shift to provider assigned addresses during the CIDR efforts in the mid > 1990s, the majority of addresses have been lease

Re: A straightforward transition plan (was: Re: V6 still not supported)

2023-01-11 Thread bzs
On January 12, 2023 at 02:11 n...@neo.co.tz (Noah) wrote: > Hi John, > > So, It was assumed that IPv4 depletion would effectively lead to the adoption > of IPv6. This has not been the case in the last decade save for a very few > countries in the world. > > It was also assumed that IPv6

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211210951.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread bzs
I'm not opposed to making 240/4 unicast but I'd agree it wouldn't solve much globally. Nonetheless it might help for example some new org which can't get an IPv4 allocation (or not sufficient.) They may really need to do both IPv4 and IPv6 for example. (ok, here we go, point by point alternativ

Re: Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211201009.AYC

2022-11-21 Thread bzs
My suggestion is ignore anyone who says it would be too difficult to get people to adopt a change or take too long. Someone always says that, a reasonable riposte is "what would be a reasonable number of people / years?" Surely they must have some numbers in mind, no? We've been trying to get pe

Re: Jon Postel Re: 202210301538.AYC

2022-11-02 Thread bzs
I suppose this might be a useful point to butt in and say that one reason we don't/can't easily term-limit US representatives to congress is that it unjustly removes their right to run for office. Obviously (I think) not apropos to IETF functioning tho perhaps in spirit. But it's why it took an

Re: jon postel

2022-10-16 Thread bzs
On October 16, 2022 at 14:18 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > my favorite is > > It's perfectly appropriate to be upset. I thought of it in a slightly > different way--like a space that we were exploring and, in the early days, > we figured out this consistent path through the space: IP

Re: FCC chairwoman: Fines alone aren't enough (Robocalls)

2022-10-04 Thread bzs
On October 3, 2022 at 16:05 m...@mtcc.com (Michael Thomas) wrote: > The problem has always been solvable at the ingress provider. The > problem was that there was zero to negative incentive to do that. You > don't need an elaborate PKI to tell the ingress provider which prefixes > customer

Re: Normal ARIN registration service fees for LRSA entrants after 31 Dec 2023 (was: Fwd: [arin-announce] Availability of the Legacy Fee Cap for New LRSA Entrants Ending as of 31 December 2023)

2022-09-19 Thread bzs
On September 19, 2022 at 10:16 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 10:04 AM wrote: > > Are IP addresses like houses, though? Aren't they more like other > > intellectual property such as trademarks or patents? What happens > > to those when you don't pay the USPT

Re: email spam

2022-08-23 Thread bzs
They should demand a full refund. On August 23, 2022 at 18:33 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > Hello, > > To folks at places like Google and Godaddy which have gotten, shall we > say, overzealous about preventing spam from entering their systems, > consider the risk: > > https:/

Re: Proposals at ITU-T for Internet Evolution Raise Serious Concerns; According to ISOC

2022-08-12 Thread bzs
It's short and worth a read though most anyone here can skip down about 3/4 to the paragraph beginning with "First, Washington should consolidate..." unless you really need an explanation of why DDoS is a problem (not a complaint, their target audience might benefit.) It's CFR, the "Council on F

Re: Proposals at ITU-T for Internet Evolution Raise Serious Concerns; According to ISOC

2022-08-11 Thread bzs
This has been going around for at least two years, makes for some great scary, click-bait headlines ("they propose an internet kill switch! For China!", and so forth.) Besides the obvious question, "by what authority will they move this forward?" many of us looked at the proposals and they're, i

Re: IoT - The end of the internet

2022-08-09 Thread bzs
Possibly interesting: This kind of idea came up w/in ICANN when they were first considering the idea of adding 1000+ new generic and internationalized TLDs. Will it cause a melt down? Money was allocated, studies and simulations were done, reports were tendered. The conclusion was: Not likely

Re: Sigh, friends don't let politicians write tech laws

2022-07-29 Thread bzs
Likelihood of passage aside I wonder where they believe they get jurisdiction for this? Put another way would it stand up in court? Put yet another way if they have jurisdiction for this wouldn't they basically have jurisdiction for just about anything like no more letter 'W's on the internet? G

Re: ICANN

2022-07-08 Thread bzs
You'd probably be 99.999% more successful in improving the state of humanity by being more specific about what you are referring to. Put another way you've probably reached "ICANN" by posting here, or as well as you're likely to by any other means you're imagining. On July 8, 2022 at 09:21 kmed

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-22 Thread bzs
On June 22, 2022 at 10:35 jcur...@istaff.org (John Curran) wrote: > Barry - > > > There is indeed a metaphor to your “rattling doorknobs", but it’s not > pretty when it comes to the Internet… > > If you call the police because someone is creeping around your property >

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-21 Thread bzs
When I lock the doors etc to my home I'll often mutter "ya know, if someone is rattling my door knob I already have a big problem." I suppose when I'm home it might give me a warning if I hear it. There must be a metaphor in there somewhere. I do recall as a teen noticing that one of the close

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-21 Thread bzs
On June 20, 2022 at 18:01 jhellent...@dataix.net (J. Hellenthal) wrote: > > To what extent and to whom will you authorize to do that? 100 random college > students? X number of new security firms? At some point it will break. Define "authorize". > > -- > J. Hellenthal > > The fact

Re: Scanning the Internet for Vulnerabilities

2022-06-20 Thread bzs
It seems to me there's vulnerability testing and there's vulnerability testing and just lumping them all together motivates disparate opinions. For example it's one thing to perhaps see if home routers login/passwords are admin/admin or similar, or if systems seem to be vuln to easily exploitabl

Re: Serious Juniper Hardware EoL Announcements

2022-06-14 Thread bzs
Just to put a little more flesh on that bone (having spent about a decade going to ICANN conferences): Although organized under ICANN, address allocation would generally be the role of IANA which would assign address blocks to RIRs for distribution. It's a useful distinction because IANA and th

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-05-28 Thread bzs
Maybe someone mentioned this in the current go-around but it seems we discussed this going back to when post-dialup became available, and before, regarding campus always-on links. There are different underlying business models possible with different bandwidths. The major split is whether you m

Re: Disney+ Issues

2022-04-29 Thread bzs
On April 29, 2022 at 09:55 n...@blastcomm.com (Nate Burke) wrote: > As much as I hate legislation, more and more municipalities are levying a tax > on streaming services.  I wonder how the taxing bodies would feel if they > knew > that the company doesn't even know where their customers are.

Re: Copper Termination Blocks

2022-04-15 Thread bzs
Gratuitous anecdote: When we moved into 1330 Beacon Street, Brookline, MA (the SS Pierce Building, 19th c) the phone closet had knob & bolt copper termination blocks. At some point the telco, then New England Telephone, came to replace them with 66 blocks. As they worked I joked that they look

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-22 Thread bzs
On March 22, 2022 at 11:53 jmai...@jmaimon.com (Joe Maimon) wrote: > 25 years to not achieve global domination opens the door to become > obsoleted before it does. Pretty sure that would be more bad than good. Not uncommon, but the problem is: Obsoleted by what exactly? We're kind of in a si

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-18 Thread bzs
I'll mention, as I often do at this point in this conversation over the past few decades, that nothing stops you from designing and implementing such a network and, for demonstration / proof of concept purposes at least, floating it on top of IP. Build a better mouse trap... On March 17, 2022 a

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-18 Thread bzs
I remember in the 80s getting into a rather detailed debate with an OSI fan about how OSI put at least authorization into what we'd call the IP layer roughly, CLNP/CLNS/TP0-4. A lot of it came down to you send me your initial handshake and I first see if you're authorized and if not reject you r

Re: Not Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

2022-03-15 Thread bzs
I think I basically understand the policy and allocation processes. What I was looking for was some characterization of the current trends for IPv4 requests, particularly how urgent and worthy they might be and the amount of space being sought. RIRs will receive those requests. The rest of us d

Re: Not Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

2022-03-14 Thread bzs
But the RIRs are the ones fielding requests for IPv4 space, and have some notion of how policy implementation might work in practice, so should have a lot of useful input. On March 14, 2022 at 00:45 niels=na...@bakker.net (Niels Bakker) wrote: > * b...@theworld.com (b...@theworld.com) [Mon 14 M

Re: Not Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock

2022-03-13 Thread bzs
Personally I'd rather hear from the RIRs regarding the value or not of making more IPv4 space such as 240/4 available. They're on the front lines of this. I think sometimes what we're manipulating in these debates is the time factor: Someone with a worthy, immediate, urgent need versus some dist

Re: V6 still not supported

2022-03-10 Thread bzs
I could offer a more philosophical assessment of IPv6 deployment. Perhaps we're there, we're doing fine. This is how it is going to go. It's out there, it works (glitches aside), those who want it use it tho they can't force others to use it so still need to maintain a dual-stack if that's of i

Re: The role of Internet governance in sanctions

2022-03-10 Thread bzs
On March 10, 2022 at 15:25 m...@beckman.org (Mel Beckman) wrote: > In my view, there is a core problematic statement in this document: > > “Military and propaganda agencies and their information infrastructure are > potential targets of sanctions.” > > What is a “propaganda agency”. A po

Re: CC: s to Non List Members (was Re: 202203080924.AYC Re: 202203071610.AYC Re: Making Use of 240/4 NetBlock)

2022-03-08 Thread bzs
I'm beginning to wonder if the internet will survive the ipv6 adoption debates. Here's the real problem which you all can promptly ignore: The IETF et al are full of bright technical people who can design protocols, packet formats, etc. But many of the major problems facing the internet are no

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
Further! Here's a page with about 25 dial-up ISPs in Ukraine: https://isp.today/en/list-of-all-services/UKRAINE,toic-14,c-1 If I go to www.ua.net, as one try, they list dial-up services and prices: http://www.ua.net/price/ediup.htm Looks current. The point being that dial-up internet is

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
1. They don't have to wait or hope for a starlink terminal to arrive. They just have to dig out an old serial modem or system with one built in (they were common), find a phone line which will support that, and figure out how to get a dial-up account and use it. Like most of the world did ~20 ye

Re: Starlink terminals deployed in Ukraine

2022-03-02 Thread bzs
TBH I doubt Putin et al could care less about a handful of starlinks in Ukraine. They're each basically one uplink for one or maybe a few devices in a country of 44M. If they did care the easiest/cheapest thing to do would be for the Russians to sweep neighborhoods for starlink transmission fre

Re: Telia is now Arelion

2022-01-20 Thread bzs
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNames On January 20, 2022 at 11:16 nanog@nanog.org (Aaron C. de Bruyn via NANOG) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 10:29 AM james.cut...@consultant.com < > james.cut...@consultant.com> wrote: > > As in any other company, the Marketing Department ha

Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

2021-11-21 Thread bzs
On November 20, 2021 at 21:29 j...@west.net (Jay Hennigan) wrote: > > That depends on your timeline. Do you know many non-technical people > > still using their Pentium III computers with circa 2001 software > > versions? Connected to the Internet? # date; lscpu Sun Nov 21 20:14:44 EST 2021

Unicast etc meta-observation

2021-11-20 Thread bzs
Reading over many of these notes my observation is that many here are good at understanding the technical points of the proposals and throwing around 224/4 this and 127/8 that. Then the discussion mostly disintegrates into anecdotes with hands waving furiously, "my anecdote is VERY important!"

Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

2021-11-18 Thread bzs
That suggests an idea: Repurpose these addresses and allow the RIRs to sell them in the IPv4 secondary markets with some earmark for the funds. Plus or minus perhaps some worthy causes for "free" (not quite free but old school) allocations. If you can't agree on any worthwhile earmark you can a

Re: Redploying most of 127/8 as unicast public

2021-11-18 Thread bzs
On November 18, 2021 at 11:15 c...@tzi.org (Carsten Bormann) wrote: > On 2021-11-18, at 00:29, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > > This seems like a really bad idea > > Right up there with the FUSSP. They do have one thing in common which is people will immediately shoot down proposals becaus

ARIN POC RegDate...

2021-10-24 Thread bzs
Perhaps silly but am I the only one with an ARIN POC RegDate of 1970-01-01? I've been in that db a long time but not quite that long. Does it matter? I have no idea what the correct date might be so the instructions to correct don't help. If I needed that info I'd consult the ARIN DB but I gues

Re: [External] Re: Anyone else getting the 'spam' bomb threat?

2021-10-21 Thread bzs
FWIW the term I'd use is "swatting" rather than "joe job". Perhaps picky but it may be the right interpretation, someone is trying to get someone else arrested and in some dramatic fashion, not just harassed. On October 21, 2021 at 16:43 hanni...@gmail.com (Martin Hannigan) wrote: > > Hi Bec

RE: Network visibility

2021-10-21 Thread bzs
On October 21, 2021 at 16:13 bka...@ford.com (Kain, Becki (.)) wrote: > I'm just kidding. I wasn't on until 1990 when I was teaching IBM 370 > assembler I taught IBM 370 ASM for several years at BU, I can probably still explain what a CSECT is, never know when it might come up like right now

RE: Network visibility

2021-10-21 Thread bzs
On October 21, 2021 at 16:04 bka...@ford.com (Kain, Becki (.)) wrote: > How old are all you people? My first experience with the ARPAnet was either 1977 or 1978 when someone got me an ITS account at MIT (BARRYS@AI), I was working at Harvard. Tho I didn't really have much use for the net other

Re: Network visibility

2021-10-21 Thread bzs
Just to throw in another curve ball what got many of us excited about the internet or Internet was that at the time there were several networking protocols in wide usage like SNA (IBM), DECNET (DEC), XNS (Xerox, ok not such wide usage), BITNET (mostly IBM systems, organization was volunteer, publ

Re: Network visibility

2021-10-20 Thread bzs
On October 20, 2021 at 13:09 m...@mtcc.com (Michael Thomas) wrote: > Yeah, I miss DECUS too. I remember one plenary when somebody asked when the > VAX > would support the full 4G address space to laughs and guffaws from panel. We had an 8MB Vax 11/780 at Harvard Chemistry ca 1982 (VMS) which

Re: Network visibility

2021-10-20 Thread bzs
On October 20, 2021 at 16:08 m...@beckman.org (Mel Beckman) wrote: > Mark, > > Before 1983, the ARPANET wasn’t an internet, let alone The Internet. Each > ARPANET connection required a host-specific interface (the “IMP”) and simplex > Network Control Protocol (NCP). NCP used users' email ad

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread bzs
One might think in over six hours they could point facebook.com's DNS somewhere else and put up a page with some info about the outage there, that this would be a practiced firedrill. Yeah yeah cache blah blah but it'd get around and at least would be coming from them. I'd imagine some mutual pa

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread bzs
17:35EDT: I'm suddenly getting: Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Facebook © 2020 · Help Center and: % host facebook.com facebook.com has address 157.

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread bzs
Although I believe it's generally true that if a company appears prominently in the news it's liable to be attacked I assume because the miscreants sit around thinking "hmm, who shall we attack today oh look at that shiny headline!" I'd hate to ascribe any altruistic motivation w/o some evidence

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-15 Thread bzs
On September 15, 2021 at 15:40 sa...@cluecentral.net (Sabri Berisha) wrote: > - On Sep 15, 2021, at 2:20 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > Hi, > > > The 600 ton elephant in the room is anyone could right now sit down > > and design and deploy some alternative to IPv4/IPv6 and from the

Re: Never push the Big Red Button (New York City subway failure)

2021-09-15 Thread bzs
On September 15, 2021 at 13:31 war...@kumari.net (Warren Kumari) wrote: > Well, there is the EPO button, which generally does that, and the (variously > labeled) HALON/FM-200/GAS FIRE SUPPRESSION/GAS DISCHARGE button, which does > the > flashy lights and klangly bell and similar. This is fai

Re: IPv6 woes - RFC

2021-09-15 Thread bzs
The 600 ton elephant in the room is anyone could right now sit down and design and deploy some alternative to IPv4/IPv6 and from there begin writing down how they did it as a series of standards documents and encourage others to give it a try hoping for some snowball effect. You just float it on

Re: The great Netflix vpn debacle! (geofeeds)

2021-09-01 Thread bzs
Every time I've read a thread about using TVs for monitors several people who'd tried would say don't do it. I think the gist was that the image processors in the TVs would fuzz text or something like that. That it was usable but they were unhappy with their attempts, it was tiring on the eyes.

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-31 Thread bzs
In this old (really not all that old comparatively, mid-late 19th c) Boston neighborhood there are apparently still appliances w/o thermocouple gas shut-offs. I know because a local gas guy I was talking to told me it was a nightmare if they had to shut off the gas in the street. They had a list

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-31 Thread bzs
I guess I sort of started this part of the thread because I was thinking: Gosh, I sure hope people who own home generators read NANOG regularly (or linepersons have some other plan). -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purvey

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-31 Thread bzs
I have a gas-fired hot water system, the electricity is also used to run the gas blower. I believe most of the electricity it uses is for circulating the hot water which you mention but it won't do anything w/o electricity. Actually I can bypass the circulator and it will do its best to circulat

Re: Reminder: Never connect a generator to home wiring without transfer switch

2021-08-25 Thread bzs
Ok, I'll be the curmudgeon... Is this really a problem in practice? Most people I've known who worked around electrical mains etc assumed the worst at all times and it isn't all that difficult to protect against as one works. I realize one can infinitely invoke "better safe than sorry!", "an o

RE: SITR/SHAKEN implementation in effect today (June 30 2021)

2021-07-10 Thread bzs
No, the root of the problem is the telcos making billions on these robocalls. Make that illegal, start fining them billions (whatever it takes), and it will stop. We've already had this discussion on nanog, recently, and people who were in that business stood up to affirm that yes indeed-y they'

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-20 Thread bzs
Something which binds them together are their insurance underwriters who generally want to set minimum requirements without having to review home-brewed security schemes. They want buzzwords and acronyms to put onto checklists. Others would be courts (e.g., when lawsuits arise) and government an

Re: Malicious SS7 activity and why SMS should never by used for 2FA

2021-04-19 Thread bzs
Can I make an old f*** comment on all this? We didn't design this network to be highly secure. It's general enough that security can be layered on at various places. But when you get down to it it was mostly designed to get information flowing easy, fast, and freely. Not to lock it down or pro

Re: internet futures

2021-03-26 Thread bzs
The video is pretty good particularly where it's most pessimistic. My prediction: It might take a little more than ten years but I'll predict positive ID or you're not getting anywhere useful. And a lot of people here will loathe that. But you/we had your chance and spent most of your ene

Re: Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

2021-03-20 Thread bzs
And some of the lessons of group creation on USENET was: 1. You don't create a sub-topic to try to generate discussion. So for example you don't create talk.baseball.redsox because no one ever posts about the redsox in talk.baseball. It doesn't work. Not really relevant here tho it might become

Re: Re: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 🔥

2021-03-11 Thread bzs
From: George Herbert ...Interesting overview of fire damage. I remember many years ago spec'ing a machine room at BU and coming to loggerheads with the VP of building and grounds. He (well, their rules) wanted low-temp sprinkler triggers, I wanted the high-temp ones (I forget but I think 135F

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-23 Thread bzs
Anyone remember when DEC delivered a new VMS version (V5 I think) whose backups didn't work, couldn't be restored? BU did, the hard way, when the engineering dept's faculty and student disk failed. DEC actually paid thousands of dollars for typist services to come and re-enter whatever was on p

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-22 Thread bzs
At Boston Univ we discovered the hard way that a security guard's walkie-talkie could cause a $5,000 (or $10K for the big machine room) Halon dump. Took a couple of times before we figured out the connection tho once someone made it to the hold button before it actually dumped. Speaking of halo

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-18 Thread bzs
One day I got called into the office supplies area because there was a smell of something burning. Uh-oh. To make a long story short there was a stainless steel bowl which was focusing the sun from a window such that it was igniting a cardboard box. Talk about SMH and random bad luck which coul

Re: Famous operational issues

2021-02-16 Thread bzs
> On Tue, 16 Feb 2021, John Kristoff wrote: > > > Friends, > > > > I'd like to start a thread about the most famous and widespread Internet > > operational issues, outages or implementation incompatibilities you > > have seen. > > When Boston University joined the internet proper ca 198

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-15 Thread bzs
In my humble but correct opinion one of the things which sabotages these efforts is an aversion to any solution which doesn't feel like it would work quickly and decisively (ask Bezos to offer a discount to anyone using IPv6 to order on Amazon???) I remember back in ~2003 on the Anti-Spam Resear

Re: Retalitory DDoS

2021-02-08 Thread bzs
I notice I often get DDoS'd when I post here, to NANOG, usually w/in 2-3 hours, so owing to this note it'll probably happen again tonight! The typical attack is some mixture of DNS whacking from dozens or hundreds of hosts, plus usually UDP packets being flung at basically round-robin ports (udp

David Tilbrook / QEF - Re: gofundme Medical Expenses - Ed Hew

2021-01-25 Thread bzs
Let me say a few words about David Tilbrook. Unlike the author of that very nice linked article below I knew David quite well. I co-chaired a couple of Usenix conferences with him and even flew to Toronto for his daughter's bat mitzvah (umm, because he invited me), etc. He was very smart, he'd

RE: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread bzs
On January 21, 2021 at 12:39 nanog@nanog.org (Jean St-Laurent via NANOG) wrote: > > I feel this is a good example that a pen is mightier than a sword. In all honesty have we really given the sword a chance in these cases? -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
On January 20, 2021 at 16:06 nanog@nanog.org (Grant Taylor via NANOG) wrote: > On 1/20/21 3:50 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > Around 300MB/day. > > Interesting. > > I see 50-70 MB / day for text only newsgroups. > > Perhaps I want to step up to more than text only on some of my serve

Re: USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
On January 20, 2021 at 13:41 b...@herrin.us (William Herrin) wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 12:40 PM wrote: > > 2. Usenet is dead and besides a full feed is 20+TB/day because it's > > dead, but 20TB/day... > > Hi Barry, > > How much is it per day if you skip the groups distributing >

USENET peers?!

2021-01-20 Thread bzs
Through a coincidence of hardware failures "out there", which should come back soon, and admittedly some inattentiveness as peers went away, The World finds itself looking for some Usenet peers. Not a full feed, we can talk. 1. OT? Feel free to point me to a better place which anyone is likely

Re: End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread bzs
On January 14, 2021 at 04:56 j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote: > Well, it probably gets way worse: if it's a "permanent" battery, it will be > harder to find, and harder to replace... No, you don't replace the permanent batteries in these 10 year smoke detectors, you toss the whole smo

End-user Alert Delivery (was Re: NDAA passed: Internet and Online Streaming Services Emergency Alert Study)

2021-01-13 Thread bzs
(Topic at hand was just building an emergency alert system into smoke detectors rather than try to come up with some complex internet-oriented design.) On January 14, 2021 at 03:56 j...@baylink.com (Jay R. Ashworth) wrote: > Last time I looked, consumer residential smoke detectors were still ru

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
Sorry for intruding one more time but in my experience, which is absolutely vast, amateurs argue written law, professionals (i.e., lawyers) generally argue precedent; how courts have interpreted the law in cases applicable to the issue at hand. If no useful precedent exists professionals tend to

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
Sometimes it's worth turning the issue around and looking at it right up the...um, whatever. A friend who is rather right-wing (tho mostly sane) said angrily that AWS terminating Parler was "Stalinist" (apparently his metaphor for totalitarian.) I said no, the government _forcing_ AWS to carry

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread bzs
On January 10, 2021 at 08:42 sro...@ronan-online.com (sro...@ronan-online.com) wrote: > While Amazon is absolutely within their rights to suspend anyone they want > for violation of their TOS, it does create an interesting problem. Amazon is > now in the content moderation business, which c

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

2021-01-05 Thread bzs
On January 4, 2021 at 21:19 valdis.kletni...@vt.edu (Valdis Klētnieks) wrote: > On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 15:33:10 -0500, b...@theworld.com said: > > Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a > > simple radio receiver? > > First, that means your smoke alarm batteries ru

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

2021-01-04 Thread bzs
Why wouldn't we just build this into 10-year battery smoke alarms, a simple radio receiver? Why does anyone think this must be a feature of the internet when, as people here have described, that entails all sorts of complexities. You just want something that goes BEEP-BEEP-BEEP KISS YOUR ASS GO

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

2021-01-02 Thread bzs
Let's just go back to air-raid sirens. I'm old enough to remember when they were tested every day at noon, which also told you it was noon (lunch!) We'd say heaven help us if The Enemy attacked at noon. -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://w

Re: 10g residential CPE

2020-12-25 Thread bzs
Another way to phrase the question (which was the subject of much dispute 30 years ago) is: Which would you rather have (I'll use modern speeds): 1gb flat rate 10gb metered Where metered 10gb could cost less than 1gb when you don't use it, or about the same at ~1gb, but more if you use >1gb?

Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?

2020-12-16 Thread bzs
I'm not so sure. If someone got the banks, credit card (fintech), big online shopping, etc (tho not a lot of etc needed) on board, the "head count" for that wouldn't be very large, and others would join (particularly retail) just to not be left out... One can build a quite different network on t

Re: "Hacking" these days - purpose?

2020-12-15 Thread bzs
Somedays I wonder if it's some vast, well-funded, Spectre-like organization whose backers just want to see trust in the internet undermined in the public's eyes on behalf of their own non-internet or anti-internet (think: phone companies who'd love to charge you per email and web page access for

Re: The Real AI Threat?

2020-12-11 Thread bzs
Slow Friday... One pressing problem of "AI", and might be a useful analogy, is that we're (everyone w/ the money) deploying it, for some value of "it", into weapons systems. The problem is that decisions made by for example an attack drone might have to be made in milliseconds incorporating man

Re: The Real AI Threat?

2020-12-11 Thread bzs
"Don't anthropomorphize computers, it just pisses them off." -- some wag -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information U

Anyone from instagram reading?

2020-12-02 Thread bzs
Instagram is enabling an harassment attack. They are sending out "change in terms of use" statements, you've probably received it. Apparently they will send them to unconfirmed accounts, en masse. So for example you own example.com and all email for *@example.com goes to you. And there are no

Re: IPv4 Broker / Service -

2020-06-11 Thread bzs
Addrex.net I know some of the principles personally and would vouch for them. On June 11, 2020 at 14:27 edwin.malle...@gmail.com (edwin.malle...@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi Nanog, > > > > I have need of a reputable IPv4 broker or service ? personal experience with > said broker would be

Re: Don't email clients have a kill file?

2020-05-14 Thread bzs
Looks cool, I'll check it out, thanks! https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WanderLust On May 14, 2020 at 14:57 ra...@psg.com (Randy Bush) wrote: > > I tend to read email with EMACS/VM. > > fwiw, i moved from VM to Wanderlust a dozen years ago; if i remember > aright, for better imap support.

Re: Don't email clients have a kill file?

2020-05-14 Thread bzs
I tend to read email with EMACS/VM. It has a 'k' command which kills (marks deleted) every message with the same subject as the current message being viewed. On May 14, 2020 at 20:36 bj...@mork.no (Bjørn Mork) wrote: > At the risk of starting an off topic discussion here, but am I the only > o

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread bzs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAeqVGP-GPM -- -Barry Shein Software Tool & Die| b...@theworld.com | http://www.TheWorld.com Purveyors to the Trade | Voice: +1 617-STD-WRLD | 800-THE-WRLD The World: Since 1989 | A Public Information Utility | *oo*

Re: Abuse Desks

2020-04-29 Thread bzs
On April 29, 2020 at 07:35 na...@ics-il.net (Mike Hammett) wrote: > "What is it, exactly, that you expect a provider to do with your report of a > few failed SSH login attempts to stop the activity?... disconnect the > customer." > > Yes. What I've done in the past is tell the customer we

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