RE: Problems with a black hole list in the netherlands

2002-03-09 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> > Were it not referenced by http://Relays.OsiruSoft.com./, It's his own personal block list - it's not meant for use by other ISP's. Ignore it - unless you really need to send them mail. I don't know of any other ISP's actually using it as a block list. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635

RE: ILEC Map

2002-03-11 Thread Mark Radabaugh
n)? > > Thanks in advance, > Irwin > Here is the map for Ohio: http://www.puc.state.oh.us/pucogis/STATEMAP/AC_TelServAreaA.pdf Only 43 ILEC's here... Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635

RE: Verio as an DS3 upstream provider - comments?

2002-03-23 Thread Mark Radabaugh
'm waiting for them to call and threaten to shut us off - that should be a fairly humorous conversation. The network itself was decent. Good connectivity and low latency but I wouldn't expect it to last much longer. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635

RE: Perspective on ARIN allocations to non-American entities

2002-04-05 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> I've searched the IANA and ICANN sites, and have found no > justification > for what appear to be ARIN allocations to foreign entities within > 66.231. > > Two serious UCE/hacking attempt offenders are as follows: > 66.231.64.0/20 GIGA-BLK-1 > 66.231.128.0/20 ECON-BLK-1 > > Why have thes

Cross Connect Cost at Exchange point

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
What is the range of pricing for rack to rack Ethernet crossconnects at a peering location? This would be from a colocation rack to a (small local) public peering point within the building. Private replies please - I will summarize for the list. Thanks,

RE: Sorta OT: IP Multicasting

2002-04-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> > > 3.) Are there any examples of audio feeds that use > Multicast I can test > >with? > > The University of Oregon makes KWAX (classical radio) available via IP > multicast; if you are using IP/TV or a compatible client, select the > session "UO Presents KWAX Classical Radio"), and we also

RE: packet inspection and privacy

2002-06-24 Thread Mark Radabaugh
lawyers think the law says. It's often useful to point out to the locals that this document exists and that they need to follow it. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635

RE: routing table size

2002-07-29 Thread Mark Radabaugh
can't expect a network to renumber everytime they need more space. I don't have a good answer to this problem nor do I expect one - it's just another reason why we have additional growth in the routing tables. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 833-3635

Re: SWIP and Rwhois in the Real World

2005-09-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Rwhois here reported that the ARIN recommended server is very difficult (impossible?) to configure to return the information that ARIN says they want from Rwhois. He gave up and resorted to SWIP. I suspect either the server implementation or the instructions need some help. -- Mark Rada

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
the ports on near misses. Direct strikes and they are toast along with anything attached to them - but that's just the way it goes :-) http://www.tessco.com/products/headerProductSearch.do?searchType=1&searchText=300ss&searchField=1 -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
is 1500V for the magnetics I checked. Off course all bets are off when lightning strikes since the voltage tends to be just a tad higher than 1500 volts. Mark Radabaugh

Re: CAT5 surge/lightning strike protection recommendations?

2005-09-14 Thread Mark Radabaugh
be metallic and have a minimum of 10' buried in the ground. This can be hard to verify on existing installations due to the common use of plastic water pipe by utilities in recent years. The 5' from the point of entrance is also due to the common use of plastic water pipe in buildings. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

IPv6 BGP Peering

2005-09-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
rs but I am not having much luck finding contact or setup information for those providers specific to IPv6. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Radabaugh
'd have similar changes in a > single homed statically routed move). > > If you don't have multihoming requirements other than availability > then it really can be fire and forget. Except for those pesky bogon filters.... which corporations seem to like to "fire and forget". -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

Re: Verizon wins MCI

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Alex Rubenstein wrote: > But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was? First thing > Verizon will have to do is fire the entire billing department > and replace them with people/systems that can generate correct > bills and send them to the correct customers. Thats right! I forgot that V

Re: Verizon wins MCI

2005-02-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Tue, 15 Feb 2005, Mark Radabaugh wrote: Alex Rubenstein wrote: But does anyone really know how big WorldCon is/was? First thing Verizon will have to do is fire the entire billing department and replace them with people/systems that can generate correct bills

Re: AOL scomp

2005-02-24 Thread Mark Radabaugh
stall mail forwards to AOL customers. Mark Radabaugh Amplex -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCHjCqg0PQSWMG2wsRAnnfAJ9IE+GIuYnBrDKrE3OlpAvZIuuXbQCfSEAS GSSlg8c0AHPh044rMDauHyI= =OjDT -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: Fire Code/UFC Regs?

2005-03-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ly" Yeah. Sure. Mark Radabaugh

Re: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com

2005-03-25 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ting around waiting for people to come to you can also be pretty expensive if you have any kind of fixed expenses. Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: Router choice for medium size hosting provider

2005-04-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ut to a $2 Cisco router but for a variety of reasons | I'm reluctant to follow this path). | | Thanks, | | Alex | Do you need BGP? That's going to make a big difference in what you want to use. An idea on the number/type of interfaces you need would be helpful as well. Mark Rada

Microsoft SOHO router multicast problem? - or maybe it's just doing what it's supposed to be doing...

2005-04-14 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ormance hit. I have blocked Multicast at several points on the network so the problem should be gone for now. The tcpdump file is at http://www.amplex.net/images/multicast.cap Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: Microsoft SOHO router multicast problem? - or maybe it's just doing what it's supposed to be doing...

2005-04-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chance Whaley wrote: | Sorry about that. Didn't look in detail. Saw the UDP port 6257 and | stopped. | | The mcast is coming from someplace upstream from | fastethernet-0-0.genoa-gw.amplex.net (that is if I did my mcast | MAC to mcast IP conversion rig

PM3's crashing

2002-11-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Anyone seeing odd crashes on Lucent PM3's tonight? We have boxes dying all over the network with hard lockups. The machines are in different physical locations with different telcos. It smells alot like a DOS of some sort. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: dontaing bgp config files [Re: Risk of Internet collapse grows]

2002-12-02 Thread Mark Radabaugh
a lot of work on analysis of BGP Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Public thanks to UUNet security

2002-12-30 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Since the good things so rarely get mentioned... I would like to publicly thank UUNet's network operations for dealing with a DOS attack quickly and efficiently yesterday. I am happy to say it only required one phone call of less than 15 minutes to get the appropriate filtering in place.

Re: New worm / port 1434?

2003-01-25 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Yep - we are seeing 3 compromised SQL boxes right now. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635 - Original Message - From: "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 1:32 AM Subject: New worm / port 1434? > >

SSL crack in the news

2003-02-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/internet/02/21/email.encryption.reut/index.html Very little real information... Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
meant as a complaint toward Verio - I'm simply trying to decide why we should go to the added expense of entering our routes in a RADB. To date I have seen no operational difference between using RADB and not using it. My view may very well be distorted by the fact that we are not a transit AS :-) Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
g reason to register my routes in a RADB I will - but at this point I have yet to see it. What does a RADB tell you about a non-transit network that you can't see from BGP and WHOIS? There is no more security in RADB than there is in our current method of notifying our peers of the netblo

Re: Who uses RADB? [was BGP to doom us all]

2003-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> It doesnt cost a million dollars to have access to a RR, its somewhat less! You > pay for your domains you pay for your IPs you pay for your ASN you pay for your > SSL, so why be shocked you pay a little for this too? And if everyone filters > your prefixes that will be operational value enough

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> Workarounds and defences already exist, and have been in use for a long > time. > Failures in master servers can be mitigated by having several of them; > simultaneous failure of all master servers can be managed to some > degree using appropriate SOA timers, so that slave servers provide > c

Re: T1 short-haul vs. long-haul

2004-07-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
they feel like it (and only during normal business hours). The usual method is to declare no trouble found and close the ticket (especially if the ticket is approaching 24 hours). Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: sms messaging without a net?

2004-08-03 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Mark Radabaugh wrote: Dan Hollis wrote: Does anyone know of a way to send SMS messages without an internet connection? Having a network monitoring system send sms pages via email very quickly runs into chicken-egg scenario. How do you email a page to let the admins know their net has gone down

Re: Are AOL's MXs mass rejecting anyone else's emails?

2004-09-07 Thread Mark Radabaugh
en somebody on our network gets infected with a spam trojan the feedback loop is pretty helpful in detecting it quickly. Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: AOL tarpitting?

2004-11-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
t we probably would not have found otherwise. Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: k.gtld-servers.net 0wned?

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Radabaugh
net really 218.234.22.221? > dig @a.root-servers.net k.gtld-servers.net k.gtld-servers.net. 172800 IN A 192.52.178.30 Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Newedge Networks meltdown?

2004-11-09 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Seems there is a major problem within NewEdge networks this morning. From the recording on the NOC line it sounds like they lost an internal database and PVC's at many of the switches. Anyone know what happened? Let the speculation begin :-) Mark Radabaugh Amplex

Re: How to monitor BGP route stability ?

2004-11-26 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Joe Shen wrote: Hi, Is there any tool to monitor BGP route stablity? thanks Joe __ Do You Yahoo!? Log on to Messenger with your mobile phone! http://sg.messenger.yahoo.com http://www.renesys.com. Gradus is pretty effective. Mark Radabaugh

Re: Cross-country shipping of large network/computer gear?

2003-08-28 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ng ways in 2 days though the cost may not be exactly pretty. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: Change to .com/.net behavior

2003-09-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
but I suspect that Verislime is now leaving expired domain in the GTLD servers until they reach the redemption period in the hope that people will not notice the domain not resolving until it reaches the extortion period. Why are we still putting up with this garbage from Verisign and ICANN? Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Nothing like viruses with bugs in them (Swen)

2003-09-19 Thread Mark Radabaugh
hy is your/my virus scanner not working?' questions. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...)

2003-09-29 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Original Message - From: "Owen DeLong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 1:07 PM Subject: Re: Annoying dynamic DNS updates (was Re: someone from attbi please contact me ...) > Think about Micr0$0ft trying to fight off thous

Re: Massive sprintlink problems?

2003-10-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
- Original Message - From: "Michael Loftis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: Massive sprintlink problems? > > Anyone else seeing this:: (1sec+ delay to my idle DSL line across > sprintlink...) > > traceroute is definitely t

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
sign - now is the time to slink home with your tail between your legs. Keep fanning the flames any you might find out that this 'vocal minority' is capable of creating considerable blowback. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Mark Radabaugh
keeping the traffic off of your dedicated line. Whether your DSL provider has the resources to sink the traffic may be another matter -- but they are at least in a position to help you and (since you are paying them) have an interest in dealing with you. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: Sitefinder fan - this guy needs a clue.

2003-10-08 Thread Mark Radabaugh
an principle of Verisign.Just more of the PR machine on a roll. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
This is interesting: Dear Valued Network Solutions® Customer, Today VeriSign, Inc. announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to sell Network Solutions to a new entity formed by Pivotal Private Equity. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635 begin 666 clear.gif K1TE

Re: Verisign to sell Network Solutions

2003-10-16 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> >So...correct me if I'm wrong here...does this mean that the registry > services > >operations and the GTLD maintenance operations for .com/.net will be > owned by > >different companies? > > Yep. And it means that Verisign business is no longer > based so much on serving customers but more on l

bad link to real stream

2003-10-19 Thread Mark Radabaugh
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0310/network.html has "To watch the meeting live, check the links on the main conference page. " - the link is bad. The real real feed is at ??? Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Gammanetworks

2003-10-22 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Anyone know if GammaNetworking is black/whitehat (http://www.gammanetworking.com)? I don't find much on them but they are supporting at least one spam gang and unresponsive to inquiries. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: Determining ownership of Internet routing problems

2003-12-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ternet will not be able to talk to other networks due to policy and peering decisions made by the various providers. Providers that do not provide access to the majority of the Internet usually find they loose market share quickly - this tends to be self correcting in fairly short order. Mark Radabaugh Amplex (419) 720-3635

Re: The Domain Name Service as an IDS

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Radabaugh
his > to the DNS operations mailing list run by the ISC OARC? > > Gadi. Let's see - a description of an interesting way to use DNS metrics to detect network abuse - network abuse that routinely causes headaches on our network and results in customer complaints. Seems pre

Re: How do you handle client contact for network abuse/malware compaints etc.?

2006-03-01 Thread Mark Radabaugh
hey won't understand is pointless. We either help them clean up the mess or refer them to someone who can. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

Re: Nationwide Routing issues with Wiltel

2006-06-26 Thread Mark Radabaugh
of WCG, so calling them for info >would have been pointless... > As a customer we were not able to get through to L3 on the phone. Apparently prefix filtering wasn't working so well either given that AS27251 was managing to announce 38/8, 64/8 and 67/8 with L3 happily passing it along. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex [EMAIL PROTECTED] 419.837.5015

Re: Why do we use facilities with EPO's?

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Radabaugh
o (or more) of anything, if there's one button somewhere that turns it all off? Seems like the EPO should be a logical AND with the fire alarm system - it only works AFTER you have an existing fire alarm in the building. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex 419.837.5015 x21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
his working from a legal standpoint though. -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex 419.837.5015 x21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Joe Greco wrote, There are lots of things that could heavily stress your upload channel. Things I've seen would include: 1) Sending a bunch of full-size pictures to all your friends and family, which might not seem too bad until it's a gig worth of 8-megapixel photos and 30 recipients, a

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
I would be much happier creating a torrent server at the data center level that customers could seed/upload from rather than doing it over the last mile. I don't see this working from a legal standpoint though. Why not? There's plenty of perfectly legal P2P content out there. Hum.

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
P2P based CDN's are a current buzzword; Verilan even has a white paper on it https://www.verisign.com/cgi-bin/clearsales_cgi/leadgen.htm?form_id=9653&toc=e20050314159653020&ra=72.219.222.192&email= Password protected link. I think we are going to see a lot more of this, and not just f

Re: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Geo. wrote: The vast majority of our last-mile connections are fixed wireless. The design of the system is essentially half-duplex with an adjustable ratio between download/upload traffic. This in a nutshell is the problem, the ratio between upload and download should be 1:1 and if it w

Re: FW: ISPs slowing P2P traffic...

2008-01-15 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Joe Greco wrote: As long as you fairly disclose to your end-users what limitations and restrictions exist on your network, I don't see the problem. You've set out a qualification that generally doesn't exist. For example, this discussion included someone from a WISP, Amplex, I believe, t

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

2008-01-18 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: I'm also looking forward to the pricing, all the per-byte plans I have seen so far makes the ISP look extremely greedy by overpricing, as opposed to "we want to charge fairly for use" that is what they say in their press statements. I see it more as an experiment

Re: IBM report reviews Internet crime

2008-02-13 Thread Mark Radabaugh
ice that the mail server SMTP port is 587 and authentication is turned on? Why do they mess with it? -- Mark Radabaugh Amplex 419.837.5015 x21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where are static bogon filters appropriate? was: 96.2.0.0/16 Bogons

2007-03-06 Thread Mark Radabaugh
x27;s the way it is or finally fix the problem. Either way the customer is lost to you 'cause they won't come back even after they figure out it was their problem in the first place. Shutting them off causes churn, leaving problems silently in place also causes churn. The middle ro

Re: multiple-choice question of the day

2007-03-18 Thread Mark Radabaugh
Randy Bush wrote: No transition plan Declared victory before the hard part even started No real long term plan No realistic estimation of costs No real support for the folk on the front lines Victory will be next month Describes: a - The war in Iraq b - DNSsec c - IPv6 d - All of the ab

Re: wcom overbilling

2002-07-05 Thread Mark Radabaugh - Amplex
every month since the T1 circuit was installed about 8 months ago. Mark Radabaugh Amplex