Re: City apologizes for ORBZ shutdown....

2002-03-22 Thread Scott Francis
n whether the 'hit' was malicious or not. They could merely have _asked_, instead of starting out with a court order. I echo Mike - *sigh* -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o

Re: solutions to the Koran spam problem

2002-04-03 Thread Scott Francis
gt; except that their enthusiasm for wiring the country for Internet > connections has so far severely outstripped their ability to manage > what they've built. Clue will eventually trickle there as well. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Syst

Re: CIA Warns of Chinese Plans for Cyber-Attacks on U.S.

2002-04-25 Thread Scott Francis
ittle active help from a governmental body couldn't make it much worse than it already is. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum op

Re: EarthLink Financier Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges

2002-04-30 Thread Scott Francis
story, when a URL would have done nicely? At least make a pretense of keeping the S/N ratio up. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum op

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Scott Francis
his is not to say that if, as Eliot posits, the next Big Thing on the market requires public IPs that your customer base won't all jump ship. That's a risk that providers will have to weigh against the benefits of NAT. > Eliot -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
the best course of action necessarily; I was trying to make the "best tool for the job" argument. There are cases where NAT is a definite advantage, or where having a public IP offers no clear benefits, if not any obvious risks. Until the model changes drastically, I just don'

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
(Stating the obvious again, I know, but it helps me think. :) ) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me a

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:32:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > ### On Thu, 2 May 2002 01:20:40 -0700, Scott Francis > ### <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> casually decided to expound upon Peter Bierman > ### <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> the following thoughts about "Re: Large IS

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
ar a convincing argument for why _right now_, NAT is not, at the least, a workable solution to this issue. It can surely hold us for a year or three until IPv6 has become the standard. (that timeframe may be a bit optimistic ...) Given current devices and technology, why is NAT not a temporary solution

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
something else. I think merely reclaiming some of the legacy A blocks assigned years ago that are being used sparsely, if at all, would eliminate any lingering doubts about space, at least for the time being. The chances of companies giving up their unused blocks, or trading for smaller ones, is prob

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-02 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:44:28PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > At 01:20 AM 5/2/2002 -0700, Scott Francis wrote: > > >The average customer buying a "web-enabled" phone doesn't need a > >publicly-routeable IP. I challenge anybody to demonstrate why a cell p

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-03 Thread Scott Francis
ge customer doesn't even know what telnet is, let alone ssh. > All they care about is browsing pr0n. Your phone can surf porn? Maybe the technology revolution has finally arrived after all ... > -Dan > -- > [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-] -- Scott Francis

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-03 Thread Scott Francis
On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 08:29:32AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Fri, 03 May 2002 00:12:34 PDT, Scott Francis said: > > > Your phone can surf porn? Maybe the technology revolution has finally arriv= > > ed > > after all ... > > No, it's still in the

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-03 Thread Scott Francis
t generally you find that you'd rather have kept the problem than taken the solution. Naturally, the technical solution will only work if everybody supports it. Whether or not _that_ will ever happen is another kettle of fish entirely. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u

Re: anybody else been spammed by "no-ip.com" yet?

2002-05-06 Thread Scott Francis
other parts of the world, etc. etc.), but I think focusing on removing the motivation for the spam would be easier than trying to stop spam directly. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Francis
ns, etc. So because we can't implement a perfect solution, let's do nothing at all about the problem? > PJ -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB3

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Francis
al contact for the netblock in question after a certain threshold has been crossed, and then a blackhole after the next threshold is crossed (assuming no response from the contact attempt). -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfr

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-16 Thread Scott Francis
only > going where you want them to go are not yet upon us. Agreed (I doubt that day will ever come). > http://online.securityfocus.com/news/126 There is a difference between what's legally acceptable and what's ethical or even prudent. > PJ -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:]

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Francis
ing funny packets? Exactly. If you want to send funny packets, send them to your OWN network, or get a job as a security consultant and do this kind of thing for money. Don't try to rationalize illegal behaviour by shifting blame to somebody else. (Note: again, not saying portscanning is

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Francis
be job hunting. Otherwise, if it's not your network, you really don't have much of a say about how it's run, do you? (If it were otherwise, large sections of APNIC would have been cleaned up long ago by those on the receiving end of portscans and spam.) -- Scott Francis

Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product

2002-05-17 Thread Scott Francis
are federal interest sites... Neither are network operators whose networks are constantly under attack. This kind of thing loses its novelty the first time one of your machines is rooted and has to be wiped and rebuilt. Whether or not it's amusing to you is immaterial. If the person being

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-18 Thread Scott Francis
s if you are under attack, filter and protect yourself. > > However a "portscan" is not an attack. Precursor to an attack, certainly. As you mentioned earlier, forewarned is forearmed. If I find myself being scanned, as a responsible network operator I will contact the operator o

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-18 Thread Scott Francis
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 05:25:27PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 13:48:27 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product) > > > > > However a "portscan" is no

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-18 Thread Scott Francis
here. A simple telnet to port 80 will do the job. > > And why, pray tell, would some stranger be carrying a concealed gun if > they were not planning on shooting someone? > Show me how to defend myself from attack by portscanning the networks of random strangers, and I will concede

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-18 Thread Scott Francis
om strangers unaffiliated with your network will almost never have a valid & benign reason for portscanning you. > I'm not sure if I would have been impressed or annoyed if they had > stopped accepting packets from my machine during the scan. :-) Loss of a customer, probably. :)

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-18 Thread Scott Francis
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:05:34PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 16:03:11 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product) > > > > And why, pray tell, would some unknown and

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-19 Thread Scott Francis
On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 11:46:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [ On Saturday, May 18, 2002 at 20:15:10 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product) > > > > Apologies; my finger was a bit too quick o

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-19 Thread Scott Francis
rdly an excuse to not do it. IMO the positives outweigh the > negatives by far. This is what I have been (unsuccessfully) attempting to state. I apparently need more practice in being coherent. :) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Ma

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-19 Thread Scott Francis
as they see fit? Who then makes the rules? > What is it that turns a technocracy into idolaters? What is it that turns the decision of an individual network operator into a rant about political ideology? -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Networ

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-19 Thread Scott Francis
n they came for me, > and by that time there was no one > left to speak up for me. > > (Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945) > > --Mitch > NetSide -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:]

Re: "portscans" (was Re: Arbor Networks DoS defense product)

2002-05-19 Thread Scott Francis
for someone given only an IP address? You know the contact information for the block that the scan originated from. From there, it's detective work (if the admin of the block in question cooperates, hopefully not too much). -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-22 Thread Scott Francis
pts to be interdisciplinary, but I suspect it will take some time before it becomes known and trusted. http://www.sagecert.org Of course, if you're not really a systems administrator, it may not apply to you ... -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n

Re: Certification or College degrees?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Francis
tuation you put them in, whether they have certifications, degrees or even prior experience, or not. > my 2 cents, > > --Ariel My $0.005 (not qualified to give a full $0.02 yet). -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager

Re: Who posts to the nanog list -- The top 59 players (Was not: Re: list problems?)

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 03:16:14PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] Nice list. Can we sort by helpful/clueful/relevant postings, and ask the top 10 to post more frequently? :) (OTOH, suspect I would quickly drop down out of the top 100 ... =\ ) -- Scott Francis darkuncle

Re: Routers vs. PC's for routing - was list problems?

2002-05-23 Thread Scott Francis
the archives, and maybe look at picobsd.org (among others) for more ideas in this vein. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum

Re: Abuse Contact at NuVox

2002-05-29 Thread Scott Francis
28-May-2002 23:38:30 EDT. ---- -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg02309/pgp0.pgp De

Re: China's cable firms fight deadly turf war

2002-05-30 Thread Scott Francis
on't come after you and beat you senseless. (awaiting stories to the contrary now ...) -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s . c o m GPG public key 0xCB33CCA7 illum opo

Re: OT: Re: Bogon list

2002-06-05 Thread Scott Francis
obably. > 2) That all NANOG subscribers read list E-mail on machines that have > procmail on them ? So because it is not applicable in all situations, it's not worth mentioning? Procmail works for a good share of those reading this list, I'd wager. -- Scott Francis

Re: Automated Reply: OT: Re: Bogon list

2002-06-05 Thread Scott Francis
or the (twice-) wasted bandwidth; I have no other way to contact the person in question. Yes, I realize this just generated another auto-reply. *sigh* -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:] t o n o s .

Re: OT: Re: Bogon list

2002-06-06 Thread Scott Francis
that are forced > (by corporate policy) to read Email on MS OutLook from an Exchange server :-( The MUA someone may have to use has nothing to do with whether or not that person possesses experience with UNIX and standard UNIX utilities. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:]

Re: Bet on with my boss

2002-06-21 Thread Scott Francis
lso critical. If the phone network is down too, a cell phone may also be important. There's no substitute for an actual face-to-face conversation, either. -- Scott Francis darkuncle@ [home:] d a r k u n c l e . n e t Systems/Network Manager sfrancis@ [work:]

Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Francis
flatly denying use of these common tools to be worth the ill will garnered. Just my opinion, of course. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg03060/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How important is IM? was RE: How important is the PSTN

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Francis
ist.) > Jabber can do SSL for IM, and there is an irc-like encrypted chat called > silc. You may also want to examine one of the several IRC hacks that incorporate SSL. The one I occasionally visit is suidnet <http://www.suidnet.org>. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (d

Re: How important is the PSTN

2002-06-26 Thread Scott Francis
ed. :) s/3.3/3.4/ also apache and the resolver bug. That last may be bsd only, but the first two ... ugh. I haven't done this much patching in a week in memory. Beats the alternative, I suppose. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revo

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Francis
he new one appears to be compliant to the current MIME standards. I'm willing to accept a bit of annoyance in order to promote standards compliance. If only Microsoft was thus motivated. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am

Re: Just an FYI - Apache Worm on the loose

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Francis
279529 (and was it _really_ necessary to post a hex dump of the entire thing? The actual source is available linked from the BUGTRAQ post above ...) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me

Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Francis
AGE- * ^-BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- * ^-END PGP SIGNATURE- | /usr/local/bin/formail \ -i "Content-Type: application/pgp; format=text; x-action=sign" } -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Francis
to find it de jure or de facto outlawed. The legal history of crypto in the United States, if nowhere else, should provide incentive in this area. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg03578/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Evil PGP sigs thread must die. was Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in my MUA OT

2002-07-10 Thread Scott Francis
ail clients not support that, many mail > clients can't even display the signed text inline! Surely a compromise is > needed for now. As the mutt homepage says: All mail clients suck. This one sucks less. If we want things to Not Suck, the only way it's going to happen is if

Re: Question regarding web hosting ip addressing

2002-07-11 Thread Scott Francis
www.test2.com > > ...and so on and so forth? Only for SSL vhosts. Otherwise, there are no problems (well, very few anyway) that I am aware of in using a single IP to host as many vhosts as physical resources will allow. I'm quite certain somebody will correct me if I've missed s

Re: Question regarding web hosting ip addressing

2002-07-12 Thread Scott Francis
s/vhosts/name-based.html (thanks Gerald), name-based hosting cannot be used with SSL due to the nature of the SSL protocol. > - Tim -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui

Buffett bailout of WorldCom raises questions of influence

2002-07-12 Thread Scott Francis
http://www.usatoday.com/money/columns/maney.htm An interesting history, especially for those of us (like myself) that didn't experience it first-hand. I've often wondered what would happen if MSFT gained control (in name or in fact) of any significant piece of the backbone ... --

PGP: learn it, use it, love it

2002-07-15 Thread Scott Francis
gn your mail, or at least stop protesting about those that make the effort to do so. There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been re

Re: PGP: learn it, use it, love it

2002-07-15 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Jul 15, 2002 at 03:43:12PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Scott Francis wrote: > > There are a great many good reasons to do so, and no good > > reasons not to. Broken software and laziness don't count. > > Sure there are. Non-repudiation is not always a

Re: OT: If you thought Y2K was bad, wait until cyber-security hits

2002-07-22 Thread Scott Francis
lied. And it's .net, not .com" ever again. http://www.flex.com/ Unfortunately, it looks like they took down the hate mail page, which was hysterical. *sigh* They target clueful users only, and seem to be getting by just fine. http://www.flex.com/adsl/ has a bit more of the "intelligent users on

Re: Your router/switch may be less secure than you think

2005-08-04 Thread Scott Francis
On 8/3/05, Robert E. Seastrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > We should all be looking to the security auditing work done by > > the OpenBSD team for an example of how systems can be > > cleaned up, fixed, and locked down if there is a will to do so. > > Beer,

Re: P2P Darknets to eclipse bandwidth management?

2005-09-02 Thread Scott Francis
On 9/2/05, Stephen J. Wilcox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > packet inspection will just evolve, thats the nature of this problem.. there > are > things you can find out from encrypted flows - what the endpoints and ports > are, > who the CA is. then you can look at the characteristics of th

Re: Setting up DS-3 and 2 4xT1

2004-12-07 Thread Scott Francis
[0] and SBE Inc.[1] both sell these (*BSD/Linux compatibility was a big selling point for me). You can even get a Soekris box with one of the Sangoma T1 cards pre-installed for you. [0] http://www.sangoma.com/ [1] http://www.sbei.com/ -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x55

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Francis
; get some work done, and frequently have a bunch of previously prepared > files to send. I may not be a typical user... Me neither. :) Hopefully this discussion is proving useful to the OP. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05423/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Francis
anti-spam system has to make, the better it will work. If it only has to decide whether or not a specific IP/port combination has exceeded a certain threshold, it will run much more smoothly than if it's examining the contents of each packet. > However, I also like the idea of doing a ban

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-17 Thread Scott Francis
tion of spam traffic that runs over HTTP rather than SMTP is, I suspect, rather small. If anybody has numbers on this, I'd be interested in hearing them one way or the other. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-18 Thread Scott Francis
20 rule, etc. Personally, I'd be happy for 80% of the operators out there to implement the easiest 80% of things required to stop spam. If people would just take even the most basic of steps required to block spam, the picture would improve drastically for all of us. -- -= Scott Francis || d

Re: Security Practices question

2002-09-23 Thread Scott Francis
ing is important. Even were it not, I'd still urge you - please do not consider this a valid option. > john brown -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05570/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Francis
fied frequently, sysadmins change responsibilities, emergencies > happen; and you can very easily get to a point where it is hard to know > just who currently has the password to the username "root" account. > (Fundamentally, all the arguments agains normal users sharing passwords > apply with even more force to passwords for privileged accounts.) > > Kent -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05725/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Francis
ving a single password for the user with id 0, > and having multiple passwords for that same account. This is an abysmally bad > idea, and shame on anybody encouraging it. See (mail client sent message while I was editing it; full reply on its way.) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darku

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Francis
On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 02:43:41PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [snip] > On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 02:44:34PM -0700, Scott Francis wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 03:22:11PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > > > I have question for the security community on

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 04:06:00PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [ On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 11:47:12 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Security Practices question > > > > Absolutely so - which is why no account should have multiple equally valid &g

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-02 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:08:05PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > [ On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 13:26:15 (-0700), Scott Francis wrote: ] > > Subject: Re: Security Practices question > > > > grr. Please read Barb's post about exactly why multiple aliases for the

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-03 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote: > > Can you back up that statement in /any/ way? What exactly are your reasons > why sudo is a worse solution (or even a bad idea)? > > In an environment where

Re: Security Practices question

2002-10-03 Thread Scott Francis
On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 09:57:10AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Scott Francis wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 05:48:16PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > In an environment where every sysadmin is interchangable, and any one > > of them can

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-03 Thread Scott Francis
w.3com.com/other/pdfs/infra/corpinfo/en_US/501302.pdf -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg05780/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Good quotes on importance of good network addressing

2002-10-07 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:49:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Thursday 3 October 2002, at 12 h 23, > Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Not sure how applicable it may be, but the OpenBSD FAQ has referenced (since > > at least 2.7) a paper called &

new BIND 4/8 vulnerabilities

2002-11-12 Thread Scott Francis
Heads up. Surprisingly, no mention so far at the usual suspects[1]. http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/bind-security.html http://bvlive01.iss.net/issEn/delivery/xforce/alertdetail.jsp?oid=21469 [1] BUGTRAQ, VulnWatch ... I saw it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] myself ... -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at

Re: What? : Delivery Status Notification (Failure) (fwd)

2002-11-18 Thread Scott Francis
in the past 24 hours, and still coming. Rather annoying. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg06800/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The magic security CD disc Re: HTTP proxies

2002-12-09 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 05:53:28PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > --On 09 December 2002 08:39 -0800 Scott Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >*cough*OpenBSD*cough* > > I've had lots of people off-list me to say how wonderfully secure X Y or Z

Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls

2003-01-18 Thread Scott Francis
le for me to attempt to protect a > network of my size. When the traffic/attacks pass a certain point, my personal feeling is that it's time to distribute the load, rather than look for a more expensive single point of failure. Of course, this is not currently backed up by much personal o

Re: Merits of purpose-built (appliance) vs. FreeBSD+ipfw firewalls

2003-01-18 Thread Scott Francis
in sequential order, from first to last. The last matching rule decides what action is taken. Does this not constitute rule-based filtering? Or am I misunderstanding you? -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Francis
nor am I a fortune teller. I also admit to far less operational experience than most of the folks on this list. This is what I see coming. I suppose time will tell whether I'm a crackpot or a visionary. :) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Francis
er and client-side) leading the way in vulnerabilities, patches and exploits is not due entirely to market share. Redmond has a history of releasing crap code, with security consistently taking a backseat to featuritis and time-to-market. This is straying off-topic, and I tend to rant on this issue,

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
or some folks, maybe less so for others. I know I've been guilty of not following my own advice in this area before, but that doesn't make it any less pertinent. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08631/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
ct bugs in their software year after year after year. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08638/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
a priority, I can't see anybody else in the commercial software biz taking it seriously. The problem was not this particular software flaw. The problem here is the track record, and the attitude, of MANY large software vendors with regards to security. It just doesn't matter to them, a

Re: OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
27;m sure they'll move to a newer version when somebody on the team gets a chance to give it a thorough code audit, and run it through sufficient testing prior to release. -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
ning who you can trust, and to what degree, and how/why, and knowing when to revoke that trust, is a problem that has been stumping folks for quite a while now. I certainly don't claim to have an answer to that question. :) -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08646/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Francis
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:00:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Francis writes: > > >There's a difference between having the occasional bug in one's software > >(Apache, OpenSSH) and having a track record of remotely

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-29 Thread Scott Francis
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 10:47:30AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Scott Francis wrote: > > He argued instead that OSes should be redesigned to implement the > principle of least privilege from the ground up, down to the > architect

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-29 Thread Scott Francis
coming from it. You did indeed put words into my mouth - you wrote: Do you even read what you write? How does a host with root access to an entire set of hosts exemplify the least privilege principle? when I had NOT drawn any correlation, AT ALL, between the ssh key admin model and the pri

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-29 Thread Scott Francis
this observation has been made many times already ... -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08729/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: What could have been done differently?

2003-01-30 Thread Scott Francis
opportunity for bureaucratic bungling ...) > Koji -- -= Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net =- GPG key CB33CCA7 has been revoked; I am now 5537F527 illum oportet crescere me autem minui msg08756/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Re: WANAL (Re: What could have been done differently?)

2003-02-04 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:27:46AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > --On Tuesday, January 28, 2003 18:06:47 -0800 Scott Francis > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sure > > they'll move to a newer version when somebody on the team gets

Re: Symantec detected Slammer worm "hours" before

2003-02-25 Thread Scott Francis
ovel use of english :) One typically finds little else in marketing. :) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Issue with 208.192.0.0/8 - 208.196.93.0/24?

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Francis
> Altho sometime I have to wonder especially with some of the recent posts. > Perhaps clueful folk should sneak off and form nanog-clueful mailing list ;) Please don't; there are many of us lurking who are learning a great deal from listening in on the conversations of the clueful.

Re: OpenSSL

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Francis
all it comes to. See what Schneier had to say in the most recent crypto-gram regarding this hole. <http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0303.html> -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OpenSSL

2003-03-17 Thread Scott Francis
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:55:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Francis writes: > > > > > > >Fun is about all it comes to. See what Schneier had to say in the most > >recent crypto-gram regarding this hole. > >&l

RFC3514

2003-03-31 Thread Scott Francis
Comments? (Nice to see Mr. Bellovin keeping up the holiday tradition ... :)) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Francis
for asking... they don't need more surveillance capabilities as much as they need to better utilize what they've already got. More laws aren't the answer to lack of success enforcing what's already on the books. -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer pgpZmINqGkGnz.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-18 Thread Scott Francis
tate a police state." -- Bruce Schneier Amen on both counts; couldn't agree with either quote more. -- Scott Francis | darkuncle(at)darkuncle(dot)net | 0x5537F527 The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer pgpCclvhcpFDk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: isn't "...isn't perfect, but it's something now"

2004-08-12 Thread Scott Francis
progress isn't entirely a zero-sum game - work on temporary measures like SPF does not necessarily preclude work on permanent solutions, does it? At any rate, this discussion is probably better taken up elsewhere (and I'm sure the points on both sides have already been b

Re: Fast TCP?

2003-06-06 Thread Scott Francis
ted with digitalfountain in any way other than being a customer and sharing an office with a beta tester. :)) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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

2003-06-19 Thread Scott Francis
of the archives. ... (well, I was going to, and saw that it was 557 lines, so I'll just post an url: http://www.darkuncle.net/aggis ) -- Scott Francis || darkuncle (at) darkuncle (dot) net illum oportet crescere me autem minui pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

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