RE: Any Comcast Mail/Sysadmins?

2007-10-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Have you tried this form? http://www.comcastsupport.com/Forms/NET/blockedprovider.asp Frank From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond L. Corbin Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 4:30 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Any Comcast Mail/Sysadmins? Hey, I'm hav

RE: BitTorrent swarms have a deadly bite on broadband nets

2007-10-25 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Are you thinking of scavenger on the upload or download? Because it's just upload, it's only the subscriber's provider that needs to concern themselves with their maintaining the tags -- they will do the necessary traffic engineering to ensure it's not 'damaging' the upstream of their other subsc

RE: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-06 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
I believe it's been said here many times before, but when in public venues, the only way to be sure about anything in regards to traffic filtering and manipulation is to VPN into your corporate network and bypass all that. Unfortuanately, it makes streaming the latest episode of Heroes a little je

RE: Running Application when Network Connection Detected

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Are you talking about Wi-Fi? I believe IBM's connection manager can do that. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Raymond L. Corbin Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 9:12 PM To: nanog Subject: Running Application when Network Connection

RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Without being totally conspiratorial, do you think the network engineers at these service providers know that that their residential subscribers' PCs and links aren't tuned for high speeds, and so can feel fairly confident in selling these speeds knowing they won't be used? Frank -Original M

RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
r quite a while... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk - iNAME Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: ISPs slowing P2P traffic... Without being totally conspiratorial, d

RE: Microsoft's Black Tuesday bandwidth impact?

2008-01-09 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Thanks. Slide 8 of your PDF shows that what an ISP would see in a P2P heavy environment is that after the automatic application of Windows Updates a drop in traffic should be seen because the P2P desktop applications don't automatically restart after their PC reboots. I guess that means that if

RE: An Attempt at Economically Rational Pricing: Time Warner Trial

2008-01-19 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Except if the cable companies want to get rid of the 5% of heavy users, they can't raise the prices for that 5% and recover their costs. The MSOs want it win-win: they'll bring prices for metered access slightly lower than "unlimited" access, making it attractive for a large segment of the user ba

Qwest desires mesh to reduce unused standby capacity

2008-02-27 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
I found this section of a Telephony Online article interesting: Though networking trends point toward an evolution to mesh networks, nationwide carrier networks currently lack the physical diversity that would help carriers realize the benefits of true mesh

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-08 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Sorry if I wasn't more clear, but I'm not asking about inbound attempts, I'm asking about the number of outbound attempts a host would perform. Frank -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2008 11:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Mark Fos

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-08 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
While I don't do flow monitoring today, when monitoring for outbound spam with Wirekshark I have seen hosts systematically check all the hosts in the block for an open SMTP port. I'm sure a lot more is going on that I don't know. The patterns are obvious to the human observer -- too bad that suc

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-10 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
We have a two-dozen line long ACL applied to our CMTS and BRAS blocking Windows and "virus" ports and have never had a complaint or a problem. We do have a more sophisticated residential or large-biz customers ask, but only once has our ACL been the source of a problem and it's only because the O

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-10 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Those using Google for SMTP can still use their ISP's SMTP servers for outbound Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ang Kah Yik Sent: Monday, March 10, 2008 7:40 PM To: Andy Dills Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Customer-facing ACL

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-11 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Those ACLs were added when I came on board. Again, only one complaint in 3+ years. And customers wonder why I shudder when they tell me that they plug in their Win9x computers directly into their cable modem. I can't imagine how much worse it would be if I didn't block the SMB ports. Frank --

IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Slightly off-topic, but tangentially related that I'll dare to ask. I'm attending an "Emerging Communications" course where the instructor stated that there are SOHO routers that natively support IPv6, pointing to Asia specifically. Do Linksys, D-Link, Netgear, etc. have such software for the As

RE: Customer-facing ACLs

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
x27;d you implement that or has it been there since the network was new? ------ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: "Frank Bulk - iNAME" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Those ACLs were added when I came on board. Again, only one complaint in 3+ years. --

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
v6 on SOHO routers? Yes, there are many. Take a look at www.ipv6-to-standard.org Regards, Jordi > De: Frank Bulk - iNAME <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:06:24 -0500 > Para: > Asunto: IPv6 on SOHO routers? >

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Looks like there's some kind of wiki here, too: http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/Broadband_CPE Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk - iNAME Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:06 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: IPv6 on

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk - iNAME Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:06 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: IPv6 on SOHO routers? Slightly off-topic, but tangentially related that I'll dare to ask. I'm attending an "Emerging Communi

RE: IPv6 on SOHO routers?

2008-03-13 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Joel: Besides the CM and CMTS itself, can the CPE attached to the CM use IPv6 if the CMTS has the right code to handle IPv6-based DHCP relay? To be clear, even if the CMTS doesn't have DOCSIS 3.0 support? Standing from a distance, I don't see why IPv6 on the routing piece of the CMTS has to req

RE: Mitigating HTTP DDoS attacks?

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
There are also companies with whom you can contract for this service. It's my understanding that if you have a problem they will help you mitigate it. I'm not sure if they require some specific DDoS gear or if they are able to take advantage of their customer's gear to address the issue. In any

RE: rack power question

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
So perhaps the question isn't so much how many kW's I can pack into a 42U rack, but for the data center designer, what's the best price point if real estate is not a significant issue. Or to say it another way, what kW density per rack will give me the lowest priced capital and operating cost per

RE: rack power question

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Thanks for the spelling it out in more detail. One point I failed to make was that as power consumption and heat/sq.ft increases, the cost to dissipate that heat appears to reach a cost/performance curve which then swings up dramatically. There appears to be a sweet spot where it's cheaper to sp

RE: Problems sending mail to yahoo?

2008-04-12 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Sounds like the obvious thing to tell customers complaining about their e-mail not getting to Yahoo! is to tell them that Yahoo! doesn't want it. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward B. DREGER Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 2:44 PM

RE: Yahoo Mail Update

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Ross: It seems like you're saying that there's no law when it comes to internet best-practices, and that's true, there's very little legislated. But there's a lots of best practices out there that are definitely worth following. Unfortunately business decisions don't always align themselves wit

RE: Postmaster @ vtext.com (or what are best practice to send SMS these days)

2008-04-16 Thread Frank Bulk - iNAME
Piecing together the information I've learned over time, is it possible that VeriSign handles some of that for Verizon? Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deepak Jain Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:37 PM To: David Coulson Cc: David