Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-16 Thread Charles Cala
--- Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) > You can't do geolocation using network timing to much better than > about 10 milliseconds because > you don't control either paths or the routers etc. in those paths. > (This requires absolute timing; > differential measurements can

Re: Geo location to IP mapping

2006-05-16 Thread Charles Cala
--- Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I seriously doubt this would work to better than the regional area. > > My zip code (20124) region is about 5 km across, which would be 15 > microseconds in vacuum, and > maybe at most 50 micro seconds in glass. So, you would need > accu

Re: SPAM Level Status - And why not stop the peering with lame ISPs

2006-02-09 Thread Charles Cala
--- Alain Hebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it just me or the level of spam coming from ASIA (region) has > just increased 10 fold in the past week? (snip) it comes and goes like the wind, and the tides. > I could see Peer stopping annoncement of the routes of ISP's that >

[Re: [Latest draft of Internet regulation bill]

2005-11-11 Thread charles cala
--- Blaine Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I suspect the section regarding nondiscriminatory access could have been worded better. Half the text is repeated. Are they paid by the word you think? I believe this part is how utilities (ele, gas, tel(traditional), sewage, etc) who do

RE: Cogent move without renumbering

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Cala
(if i may shorten this a bit...) Q can an "end user" take non portable ip's with them to another service provider? --- "william(at)elan.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Hannigan, Martin wrote: > Depending upon the circumstance, yes: here is SOME of the raw data http://e-g

Re: Anyone seen 172.15/16 lately?

2005-09-28 Thread Charles Cala
i belive the space in question ( before 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255) is not in the arin database. --- Edward Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But that doesn't answer the question: (;)) > > NetRange: 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 > CIDR: 172.16.0.0/12 > NetName:IANA-BBLK-RESERVED >

RE: UUNET connectivity in Minneapolis, MN

2005-08-12 Thread Charles Cala
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James D. Butt > Unless there is some sort of crazy story related > to why a service provider > could not keep the lights on, this should have not > been an issue with > proper operations and engineering. 6 stories from the t

Re: compromized host list available

2005-07-21 Thread Charles Cala
--- Joseph S D Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless you have personally verified each entry, you would do well to add > a disclaimer that DNSRBLs are not 100% reliable, eh? And what on the net is? :) I’m all for people dealing with “badly managed” boxes at various levels. While some

Re: botted hosts

2005-04-05 Thread Charles Cala
--- Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > > > > Others just grab the smtp server (and AUTH settings if any) from your > > MUA - easier if its Outlook / OE - and send using that smarthost. > > Has that actually been observed in the wild? y

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-20 Thread Charles Cala
I call “shenanigans” . --- Larry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 19 December 2004 16:47, Sean Donelan wrote: > > The really > > scary thing is the infection rate of Home/SOHO computers with > > AV/firewalls is higher than "naked" computers. This flies in the face of both logic _AN

Re: I am new to the list and have some questions about Black Holes

2004-11-12 Thread Charles Cala
Here are some links about black holes.. The interesting thing about black holes is that nothing “should” come out of them, (according to Steven Hawking) but he (hawking) later revised his theory saying something DOES make it out of the black hole, information. This I believe is where managem