ARIN DB down ?

2002-05-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
Anyone know whats up ? wat-border2# whois -h whois.arin.net 192.168.0.0 An error has occured, please contact the administrator. wat-border2# ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651

Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?

2002-05-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:21 PM 28/05/2002 -0400, Jeff Mcadams wrote: >Also sprach E.B. Dreger > >RAS> be mistaken for a port scan. But for so many network admins, > >RAS> all they know is "ICMP bad". > > >That'll be the day when someone calls abuse saying "I'm being attacked > >by ICMP unreachables!" ;-) > >"That'

Re: Internet vulnerabilities

2002-07-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
Well, the recent jumbo AS path issue had an interesting effect of resource starvation on a few routers. Still, I think the softest targets are the root name servers. I was glad to hear at the Toronto NANOG meeting that this was being looked into from a routing perspective. Not sure what is

Re: Teleglobe issues?

2002-07-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
Dont know, but I was seeing lots-o-problems to 852 174 6453 15605 at the PSINet / Teleglobe link in New York. At the time I didnt know if it was a just a problem to Iceland (15605) or it started in Teleglobe. I didnt have time to take a close look then. Teleglobe has a looking glass at htt

Telus outage in Toronto, Ont Canada (AS852) ?

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada

Re: Telus outage in Toronto, Ont Canada (AS852) ?

2002-08-16 Thread Mike Tancsa
This started just before noon Toronto time (EDT) (my BGP session to them went idle at 11:41). Supposedly a sprinkler pipe broke and soaked a few optical transport shelves. The last updated I had was that it will be a few hours still. The master ticket is 895-126. This is all third hand.

Transit politics (Telus blocking sites it does not like)

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
ecedent for a common carrier argument :( I like BGP blackholing to protect internet infrastructure, but what exactly is this protecting ? ---Mike -------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400

Re: Transit politics (Telus blocking sites it does not like)

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:05 AM 25/07/2005, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ISPs are not common carriers. Look at your contract, I think you will find they are allowed to filter specific things if they feel necessary for a wide variety of reasons. Infrastructure reasons yes. This is not an infrastructure issue. As t

Re: Transit politics (Telus blocking sites it does not like)

2005-07-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
A nice succinct analysis (by an actual lawyer (law prof) who specializes in Canadian Internet law) can be found at http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ Telus Blocks Subscriber Access to Union Website Reports today indicate that Telus is currently blocking access to Voices for Change, a website run

Re: OT: Cisco.com password reset.

2005-08-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
Same here. I didnt get a notice that it was reset, but I cannot login ---Mike At 09:30 AM 03/08/2005, Dan Armstrong wrote: My PW to CCO did not work this morning either. I am on hold with the TAC right now Joe Blanchard wrote: FYI I got an email that my CCO account's passw

DDoS attacks, spoofed source addresses and adjusted TTLs

2005-08-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
tal. ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Onta

Re: DDoS attacks, spoofed source addresses and adjusted TTLs

2005-08-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:55 PM 03/08/2005, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > hops away, the TTL of the packet when it got to me was 56). Yes, I know > those could be adjusted in theory to mask multiple sources, but in practice > has anyone seen that ? what exactly was the question? You answered it mostly-- what d

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:31 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote: Does anyone know what their mail infrastructure looks like? From what I can see, they don't even have an MX record for fema.gov... No MX record, and the A record for fema.gov does not accept smtp traffic. # telnet fema.gov smtp Trying 205.128.1.

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:29 AM 13/09/2005, Steven Champeon wrote: on Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 09:54:42AM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > Looks Solaris'ish > > # telnet ns2.fema.gov smtp > Trying 162.83.67.144... > Connected to ns2.fema.gov. > Escape character is '^]'. > 22

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:50 PM 13/09/2005, Joseph S D Yao wrote: Oh, and also ... please consider that some firewalls try to discern whether the connection on port 25 is from a mail server or from Telnet. While I mourn the simplicity of manual debugging of such sites, it remains that: the fact that you can't TELN

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:10 PM 13/09/2005, kent crispin wrote: Port 587? Not everyone implements that. You would make a large part of the internet unreachable via email vinyl# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 587 Trying 67.28.114.36... telnet: connect to address 67.28.114.36: Connection refused Trying 4.79.181.13..

Re: Computer systems blamed for feeble hurricane response?

2005-09-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:28 AM 14/09/2005, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On 9/14/05, Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Port 587? > Not everyone implements that. You would make a large part of the > internet unreachable via email > vinyl# telnet mx2.mail.yahoo.com 587 > Trying

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:50 AM 05/10/2005, Matthew Crocker wrote: I opened a billing/support ticket with Cogent. I'm not planning on paying my bill or continuing the contract if they cannot provide full BGP tables and full Internet transport (barring outages). Luckily I have 2 other providers so I can still re

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:43 PM 05/10/2005, Jeff Shultz wrote: And why isn't this apparently happening automatically? Pardon the density of my brain matter here, but I thought that was what BGP was all about? The assumption you are making is that Cogent has a full view from someone of all prefixes outside AS17

Re: Cogent/Level 3 depeering

2005-10-05 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:47 PM 05/10/2005, Douglas Dever wrote: > fact remains that Cogent is not providing the service I'm paying them > for and they need to get it fixed. Really? As you already pointed out, your packets are reaching their destination. So, they don't "need" to get anything "fixed." I think

Re: multi homing pressure

2005-10-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:59 AM 19/10/2005, Elmar K. Bins wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Vierling) wrote: > Tier-2s should be given much more credit than they typically are in > write-ups like this. When a customer is single homed to a tier-2 that has > multiple tier-1 upstreams, and uses a delegated netblock fr

Re: Akamai server reliability

2005-11-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:39 PM 28/11/2005, Roy wrote: Is anyone else seeing high failure rates of Akamai servers at their facilities? Nope, just one bad box in many years. ---Mike

no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
o anywhere ? ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:17 AM 09/12/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: Read NANOG archives - Verisign now allows immediate (well, within about 10 minutes) updates of .com/.net zones (also same for .biz) Yes, I was aware of that. while whois data is still updated once or twice a day. I (wrongly) assumed that the initi

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:50 PM 09/12/2004, Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM". What gives ? How can there be no whois info anywhere ? You can also make whois information private, usually for an additional fee. I wonder what % of domains that have their whois inf

RE: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:44 PM 09/12/2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Perhaps 100% of spammers hide their registration data when possible, but I wouldn't say that 100% of hidden registrations are spammers. An RBL option of this type of data would probably mean forced elimination of a benefit to the public - privacy. Th

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:10 PM 09/12/2004, Daniel Senie wrote: The WHOIS data is there to ensure there's someone to contact. As long as the data listed can be used to reach the domain holder for legitimate purposes (technical problems, etc.), why should you care if the listed address is a Care Of address, the emai

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:49 PM 09/12/2004, Peter John Hill wrote: Jeff Rosowski wrote: shell1% whois vestigial3had.com ... No match for "VESTIGIAL3HAD.COM". What gives ? How can their be no whois info anywhere ? How about the following... (note that just because someone is using someone as their authoritative name

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-09 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:32 PM 09/12/2004, Janet Sullivan wrote: I wonder what % of domains that have their whois info hidden or "private" are throwaway spam domains... Some number approaching 100% I would bet. It would be nice to somehow incorporate this into a SpamAssassin check somehow. Please don't, there ar

Re: RADB anon ftp server stoned or deprecated?

2005-02-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Works for me. Are you sure you are not coming from a PTR/A record mismatch ? smarthost1# host 66.235.194.37 37.194.235.66.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer ds194-37.ipowerweb.com smarthost1# host ds194-37.ipowerweb.com Host not found. smarthost1# smarthost1# host -tns ipowerweb.com ipowerweb.com n

Re: ATT.net Security Contact

2005-04-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:39 PM 17/04/2005, Joseph W. Breu wrote: Can someone from ATT.net security contact me offlist RE: our network in their RBL? Try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Humans do seem to read it. During the week they responded within a few hrs. However, when I asked why they blacklisted us in the first place, I

Sympatico / Nexxia (as577) smtp issues ?

2005-03-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
p7.bellnexxia.net smtp Trying 209.226.175.175... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused > ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,

Re: Microsoft broke MTU discovery by last security pathces??

2005-05-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
There is discussion on ntbugtraq http://www.ntbugtraq.com/default.aspx?pid=36&sid=1&A2=ind0505&L=ntbugtraq&T=0&O=D&F=N&P=192 ---Mike At 04:43 PM 17/05/2005, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Do you have amny information about last Microsoft problems with security patches? We can see, how one of last u

198.41.0.0/22 ? whois-servers.net

2002-08-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
--Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

Re: AT&T NYC

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
I am seeing this as well. One of my upstreams (AT&T Canada- 15290) has connections with AT&T US (7018) in Chicago and Vancouver. Chicago seems to have disappeared for me and all traffic bound via that path is going via Vancouver now. ---Mike At 02:52 PM 28/08/2002 -0500, Wes Bachm

Re: AT&T NYC

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
route-server.ip.att.net is not currently reachable, but AS15290's router server is for those who want a view on things... route-server.east.attcanada.com. and route-server.west.attcanada.com. which come in handy :-) ---Mike At 04:11 PM 28/08/2002 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:

RE: AT&T NYC

2002-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
dmitting there was a problem and not pointing fingers elsewhere (it was the vendors fault!) should be commended. ---Mike At 11:21 PM 8/28/2002 -0400, Frank Scalzo wrote: >Whoops! 2 hours to find routers w/o an IGP tsk tsk.

Re: Bad bad routing problems?

2002-08-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.35) 87 ms 87 ms 88 ms > > 12 p16-0-0-0.r02.stngva01.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.15) 87 ms 88 ms 87 ms > > 13 p16-7-0-0.r02.mclnva02.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.47) 88 ms 88 ms 88 ms > > 14 p4-3-0.r00.mclnva02.us.bb.verio.net (129.250.5.249) 88

Re: Vulnerbilities of Interconnection

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:41 PM 05/09/2002 -0400, batz wrote: >On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >:The question is what if someone was gunning for your fiber. To date >:cuts have been unintentional. Obviously the risk level is much higher >:doing a phyisical attack, but the bad guys in this scenario a

Re: Console Servers

2002-09-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
to any "roll your own" parts, esp. IDE -> >Flash adapters and multiport serial cards that will work with FreeBSD. > >I can summarize to keep the noise down... > >Thanks, > >Charles > >-- >Charles Sprickman >[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Sprint (1239) blackhole ? Or bogus /32 route ?

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
---Mike -------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

Re: Sprint (1239) blackhole ? Or bogus /32 route ?

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:31 PM 26/09/2002 -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >Looks like something isn't right... I see the announcement from Sprint >with an AS path of 1239 852 11647, but it never gets past one of the >routers on Sprint's network. I have no problem going through Cable and >Wireless: Yes, and the stran

Re: Sprint (1239) blackhole ? Or bogus /32 route ?

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
is. ---Mike At 01:35 PM 26/09/2002 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: >At 01:31 PM 26/09/2002 -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >>Looks like something isn't right... I see the announcement from Sprint >>with an AS path of 1239 852 11647, but it never gets past one of the &

Re: Sprint (1239) blackhole ? Or bogus /32 route ?

2002-09-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:27 PM 26/09/2002 -0400, Vinny Abello wrote: >Yep, you're right. Looks like they might blackholing the /32 with a null >route on their network somewhere. To mitigate the impact, I am sending 199.212.134.0/24 as a more specific route through my other transit provider (15290) who does not

Re: what's that smell?

2002-10-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:34 AM 08/10/2002 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: >What is difficult about dropping packets sourced from RFC1918 addresses >before they leave your network? > >I kind of assumed that people weren't doing it because they were lazy. I am sure thats part of it. Also, it might be a CPU issue as well

Telus (AS852) problems ?

2002-11-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
ome time now, so perhaps someone on the list might know whats up ? I know there are a few Telus people who monitor NANOG... ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communicati

Re: Telus (AS852) problems ?

2002-11-10 Thread Mike Tancsa
e: They've definitely got some funky routing going on. Not too sure if it's normal, but regardless, it's strange. On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 20:42, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > Anyone else seeing any problems with Telus (AS852) tonight ? This morning > an IGP config typo (dont know many

Re: MIA: oregon-ix.net

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
There is a second one as well which is 198.32.162.102. Its a little more responsive, but with less peers. ---Mike At 01:04 PM 20/11/2002 -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: Kai, i'm not sure about the dns for the domain (i suspect the appropriate people are at ietf.. infact i k

Re: MIA: oregon-ix.net

2002-11-20 Thread Mike Tancsa
20, 2002 at 06:35:59PM +, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > telnet to the domain works fine from here? > > confirm you have it correct- route-views.oregon-ix.net > > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > > > > > There is a second one as well which

Re: Cogent and Level3 Peering Issues

2002-12-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Might have to do with http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-bandwidth/0212/msg00978.html (AOL vs Cogent Peering issue) ---Mike At 09:51 AM 18/12/2002 -0500, Dale Levesque wrote: Anyone happen to have more information on the problems that have been happening with the peering between Co

Worm on 1434 (was Re: Level3 routing issues?)

2003-01-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
om all over the world to any address on my network. -------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

Re: New worm / port 1434?

2003-01-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 02:45 AM 1/25/2003 -0600, Jack Bates wrote: From: "Mike Tancsa" > > > Yes, I am seeing this big time. Are you sure its SQL server ? Thats > normally 1433 no ? Are there any other details somewhere about this ? > All MS SQL servers listen to 1434 reguardles

Re: Remote email access

2003-01-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
implementing it. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario

AS852 - AS577 problems ?

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Tancsa
route-views.on> Anyone know whats up ? ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994

Re: AS852 - AS577 problems ? (resolved)

2003-02-26 Thread Mike Tancsa
go there :-) Anyways, just wanted to publicly thank the nice Telus NOC people for making my life easier. ---Mike At 10:10 PM 25/02/2003 -0500, Mike Tancsa wrote: Anyone know what is up between them in Ontario, Canada ? I am seeing pretty high latency and packet loss in both directions

Re: DSL-IP Probes Curiousity..

2003-03-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
ak in many parts of North America... More time to do these sorts of things. ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: aljazeera.net domain owned.

2003-03-27 Thread Mike Tancsa
Looks like 213.30.180.218 allows unrestricted zone transfers. > ls -d ALJAZEERA.NET. [[213.30.180.218]] $ORIGIN aljazeera.net. @ 15M IN SOA ns3 dnsadmin.nav-link.net. ( 2003032706 ; serial

Re: Tracking the bad guys

2004-05-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:58 PM 30/05/2004, Sean Donelan wrote: "Initially you start to work backwards from the e-mail and find that to be a very frustrating route," said Daniel Larkin, chief of the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center, the unit that is coordinating Project Slam Spam. "that doesn't lead to a

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
We are unable to make new resolutions from their servers granite# host -t ns akadns.net akadns.net name server zh.akadns.net akadns.net name server eur3.akam.net akadns.net name server zf.akadns.net akadns.net name server zc.akadns.net akadns.net name server asia3.akam.net akadns.net name server u

Re: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
So anyone know what was the cause ? ---Mike At 09:08 AM 15/06/2004, Leo Bicknell wrote: From here neither www.google.com, nor www.apple.com work. Both seem to return CNAMES to akadns.net addresses (eg, www.google.akadns.net, www.apple.com.akadns.net), and from here all of the akadns.net s

RE: Akamai DNS Issue?

2004-06-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/15/akamai_goes_postal/ Brian Conant Lead Security Engineer ADESA Corp -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 2:53 PM To: Leo Bicknell; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Akamai DNS Issue? So

Yahoo mail public notice of problems ?

2004-06-17 Thread Mike Tancsa
y unavailable. Please try again later [#4.16.3]. I checked from another network totally independent of mine and they too are seeing similar problems. ---Mike ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 65

ARIN whois server offline ?

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
(152.63.32.181) 34.680 ms 35.498 ms 35.267 ms 13 194.ATM5-0.GW4.DCA1.ALTER.NET (152.63.37.65) 35.113 ms 35.455 ms 35.452 ms 14 arin-gw2.customer.alter.net (65.207.88.74) 110.848 ms 37.177 ms 38.229 ms 15 *^C marble% Mike

Re: Interesting Occurrence

2004-06-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
Not the best place to ask (full-discloure or the incidents list perhaps), but there are numerous phishing scams going of late (I get 3 or 4 a day) that exploit an unpatched IE bug e.g. the spam reads You Have a VoiceMessage Waiting Priority :Urgent From:xxx xxx http://www.ONEvoicemailbox.n

Next hop issues inside AS577 to AS852?

2004-07-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

RE: Next hop issues inside AS577 to AS852?

2004-07-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
ved. Telus is my main transit, and I dont like having to use such a blunt approach to working around this issue :( ---Mike Eric Krichbaum, Chief Engineer MCSE, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, CCIP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:12 PM 30/08/2004, Dan Hollis wrote: yep md5 made the news recently because it's been cracked: http://techrepublic.com.com/5100-22-5314533.html http://www.rtfm.com/movabletype/archives/2004_08.html#001055 Thats a misleading over simplification. A collision being found implies something diffe

Re: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-08-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:10 PM 30/08/2004, Scott Call wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Mike Tancsa wrote: I recall even seeing posts about people claiming this meant original data being reconstructed from the checksum! That would be truly amazing since I could reconstruct a 680MB ISO from just

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

2004-09-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:27 AM 07/09/2004, Thornton wrote: Only thing you can do is try to call them but that probably wont get you anywhere. If you have enough customers on AOL they can complain and if you really have a lot could get it removed. But for the most part your just SOL Thats not been our experience at

Re: Seeking abuse contact for 142.177.73.59

2004-09-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
Try @aliant.ca (note the one L). Bell.ca (BCE) is a majority owner in Aliant which is an amalgamation of the various old provincial incumbent telcos and they are just finishing up a nasty protracted strike as well. ---Mike At 01:52 PM 07/09/2004, Dave Dennis wrote: Greetings, Attemptin

Re: short Botnet list and Cashing in on DoS

2004-10-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:10 AM 07/10/2004, J. Oquendo wrote: I've been slowly compiling a list of known botnets should A lot of the IP addresses you have listed seem like they would change with some frequency based on the host names. The problem with using such a list is that it can quickly become out of date unl

Re: "Make love, not spam"....

2004-11-29 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 09:39 AM 29/11/2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: I'd be curious to hear what NANOG readers thoughts are on this. It would be interesting to see how this fares when faced with a whole lot of router acls that got put in to filter out nachi Although I generally like

Re: Router too busy???

2003-04-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
'm wondering whether > > this may be an IOS bug or whether I may have hardware on its way out or > > whether this was some kind of new crafty DoS attack. > > > > TIA! > > > > Mark J. Scheller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

Re: .mil domain

2003-05-31 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 01:15 PM 30/05/2003 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: For the same reason anyone else accepts their routes -- because they want to be able to reach them. If they don't want to reach _you_, that's their choice. As Sean Donelan pointed out, the fact that 2 of the root name servers are inside their n

Re: Metoo Was: Pesky spammers are using my mailbox

2003-06-04 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:20 PM 03/06/2003 +0200, Daniel Karrenberg wrote: On 03.06 13:44, Dominic J. Eidson wrote: > > I'm having a feeling that someone harvested a bunch of adresses, possibly > from NANOG, and is using them as the sender address in pretend-to-be KLEZ > spams.. I have received several bounces lately

DDoS tracking / accounting tools

2003-06-08 Thread Mike Tancsa
ignature ? trinity v3 seems to have these capabilities but I have not seen it mentioned in some time... An oldie but a goodie, or something new ? ---Mike -------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1

Re: anyone has netrange -> cidr conversion script to share?

2003-06-12 Thread Mike Tancsa
-- William Leibzon Elan Communications Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994

Re: Working vulnerability? (Cisco exploit)

2003-07-18 Thread Mike Tancsa
Something was posted to the full-disclosure list. I havent tested it yet myself but someone else said it did work. http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/011421.html http://lists.netsys.com/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-July/011420.html ---Mike At 09:24 AM 18/07/2

Re: AT&T Canada Problems ???

2003-07-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
y news regarding the problem cause? -------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing Internet since 1994www.se

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:58 AM 30/07/2003 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: If someone abuses the PSTN, or other networks they eventually will get their service terminated. If people abuse their access by launching DoS attacks, we need to catch them and get their access Gee, wouldnt that be nice. Having personally

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:19 PM 30/07/2003 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 02:43:16PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 10:58 AM 30/07/2003 -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > > >If someone abuses the PSTN, or other networks they eventually > >will get their service terminated.

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-07-30 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 10:37 PM 30/07/2003 +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Sure, trace my attacks to the linux box at UW, I didn't spoof the flood and you can prove I did the attacking how? You can at least TRY and see where the controlling traffic stream is originating from. i.e. if crap is coming out of box

Re: maybe this should be on sec focus but.

2003-08-01 Thread Mike Tancsa
Sounds like mimail. See http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100523.htm ---Mike At 02:45 PM 01/08/2003 -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: I have had like 4 users call and tell me that they're receiving email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a unidentified attachment, possibly a worm that

Big power outage in Ontario ?

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Anyone know whats up with the big power outage in Ontario Canada ? ---Mike

RE: East Coast outage? (remote power -- as in remote huts)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Although our main office here has generator power, what do all the intermediary unmanaged network sites typically have for DC power along the way ? One of my local fibre providers told me that the remote hut we are off of only will last until about 9:30pm tonight and then bye bye. Is that t

Re: Battery lifetimes RE: East Coast outage?

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Thanks. A couple of people told me that the target is 8hrs for Bell Canada huts. So hopefully some power will make it there before long. Not sure how well they will prioritize what huts to charge with portable gensets. I imagine they dont of course have a portable genset for every hut out ther

151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Does anyone know whats up with them ? All my peers are down now and the host for the mailing list is still off the air. ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Yikes, I just heard that the power is out at 151 Front St because they are having generator problem. ---Mike At 11:04 PM 14/08/2003 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: Does anyone know whats up with them ? All my peers are down now and the host for the mailing list is still off the air

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
have any more details ? The intake on my 7204s are at 37C vs the normal 28C. ---Mike At 11:04 PM 14/08/2003 -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: Does anyone know whats up with them ? All my peers are down now and the host for the mailing list is still off the air. ---Mike

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 07:02 PM 05/08/2003 +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: so long as you are sure they aren't spoofed, yes. A recent post by Rob Thomas said, "I've tracked 1787 DDoS attacks since 01 JAN 2003. Of that number, only 32 used spoofed sources. I rarely see spoofed attacks now." Thats about 1%. Of

Re: Weird attack or traffic (Was Re: The impending DDoS storm)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
Yes, we are starting to see this as well. We are filtering at the edge, so the bogus packets are not getting out. We have a /19 of 64.7.128.0/19 and 64.7.229.241 is totally bogus for our network. Aug 14 21:59:16 telus-151front /kernel: ipfw: 3 Deny TCP 64.7.229.241:1069 204.79.188.11:80

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

2003-08-14 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 08:26 PM 14/08/2003 -0700, Eric Kuhnke wrote: TORIX is off the net traces to peer1 routers/hosts at 151 front die before reaching toronto the rumor mill has it that 151 front's generator system failed utterly... Just called my colo provider (GT/360) and they said the air conditioners are sti

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix)

2003-08-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
supposedly restored around ~ 1am but still no cooling :-( ---Mike At 03:46 AM 15/08/2003 -0400, Bill Zeng wrote: That's a shame to owner/Bell. Generators should have been tested with the full load on a periodic basis. On Thu, 14 Aug 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: > Yikes, I just heard

Re: 151 Front St Toronto (Torix) (cooling fixed)

2003-08-15 Thread Mike Tancsa
, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 08:26 PM 14/08/2003 -0700, Eric Kuhnke wrote: TORIX is off the net traces to peer1 routers/hosts at 151 front die before reaching toronto the rumor mill has it that 151 front's generator system failed utterly... Just called my colo provider (GT/360) and they said th

RE: AT&T Blocking ICMP

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
Are they blocking just icmp echo or everything ? ---Mike At 12:29 PM 19/08/2003 -0400, Ingevaldson, Dan (ISS Atlanta) wrote: The "Nachi" worm propagates via MSRPC DCOM and the IIS WebDAV bug. It may be causing this storm because it runs 300 scanning threads, and it pings each IP first

Re: some wide-scale airline reservations issue

2003-08-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 03:40 PM 19/08/2003 -0400, Joe Abley wrote: The consistent component of the ongoing rumour mill is that this is due to "some computer virus". sobig.f is REALLY making the rounds. I think its been effective as it plays on the public awareness of "some security hole" and "needed fixes from Mic

Re: email virus ==> over the top

2003-08-21 Thread Mike Tancsa
Probably not. The virus grabs a From address at random from the infected person's email in box. So its more likely someone who has got mail FROM those people rather than those people. See http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100561.htm To quote, "The "From:" address may be spoofed with an address

Re: Fun new policy at AOL

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
which are static;) What would BGP tables tell you about internal routing and DNS ? ---Mike Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications,[EMAIL

Dealing with infected users (Re: ICMP traffic increasing on most backbones Re: GLBX ICMP rate limiting

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
We have been doing that. During quiet times our Customer Service Reps (CSR) are calling infected users telling them a) Their computer has been compromised. In its current state it can potentially be taken over by others or other users can look at the contents of their private files etc. b) I

Re: Sobig.f surprise attack today

2003-08-28 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:54 PM 28/08/2003 -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > Alternatively, perhaps we could, instead, publish an INFECTED SYSTEMS > blacklist > based on such connections to a honeypot. Any system which made the correct > request could then have it's address published via BGP or DNS for ISPs and > the like t

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