Re: Cisco crapaganda

At 11:49 AM -0700 8/9/05, Dan Hollis wrote: Someone made a video of cisco hard at work fixing router security holes: http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2005/08/video_of_ciscoi.html Cisco is also fixing web security holes: http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/66078 With all this and the FBI inv

Re: Network Map Generator

Anyone know of something that will generate an org-chart like network map dynamically? Intermapper <http://www.intermapper.com/> Don't know where it breaks in terms of scale, but it is an interesting tool. -- --chuck goolsbee geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, seattl

Re: Internap power outage?

, Inc. Apparently the outage was isolated to their Seattle/Fisher Plaza Colocation facility. -- --chuck goolsbee geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, seattle, wa <http://www.forest.net>

Re: AOL scomp

It's too bad that about 1/3 of the reported mails are valid opt-in lists. The other 1/3rd are actual spam, but legitimately forwarded as the user requested from a personal or business domain to an AOL account. Any server in the path gets tagged as a spam source. And the remaining third seems to

Comcast Contact. (was: RE: AOL scomp)

attempted unsuccessfully, for a problem that has been repeating itself every few days for the past two months. --chuck goolsbee digital.forest inc, seattle, wa <http://www.forest.net> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 206-838-1630 xt2001 - AIM:chuckgoolsbee or [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

RE: C&W Move

ted Sept. 27), and a few phone calls by now. -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations _ digital.forest Phone: +1-877-720-0483, x2001 where Internet solutions grow Int'

Re: sprint passes uu?

al experience with the latter.) I guess it has been recently revealed as felonious behavior. I'd be a fool to go down that path again. I'm sorry to say but, I'll be officiating ice hockey games in hell before doing business with UUnet again. -- Chuck Goolsbee

Re: Weird distributed spam attack

etwork Manager's user group (ANMA) I was in back in the early 90's. The salesdroid at Postini introduced me to my "install engineer" and it was a guy who was the pres of the Bay Area chapter... when I was the pres of the Northwest one. We both had a good laugh. Small world. --

Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)

Also, if you want to monitor massive amounts of data (something people say can't be done easily) you just demux it using a device like those at www.toplayer.com, or http://www.radware.com/content/products/fire.asp . Both solutions are adequate for breaking up massive amounts of data. I could wri

Genuity/L3 "Motion Granted"?

connection will go dark on Feb 25 correct? 2. Can somebody from either Genuity or L3 clue me in (offlist) to the whys, whens and hows here? If I have a less than a week to scramble up another cicuit I need all the lead time I can get. Regards, -- Chuck Goolsbee

Re: Genuity/L3 "Motion Granted"?

who are sending your salessharks toward the rapidly expanding mass of chum in the water here... go ahead... provided of course *you* can actually deliver me a DS3 in a week or so if I sign papers between now and Friday! Regards, -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical

Re: spamcop.net?

volved when on trial by spews. I have a semi-auto reply now to explain the situation to Spamcop subscribers, but I doubt any of them read it, and I know no attempt is made to verify or prevent this event from repeating ad infinitum. -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Techn

Issue with 208.192.0.0/8 - 208.196.93.0/24?

stomer (but his traces were dying in the same place as mine: 207.ATM6-0.GW11.NYC1.ALTER.NET (152.63.29.185)) Can anybody out there hit that IP (208.196.93.204) at the moment? Or indeed much of anything in that /8? -- --chuck goolsbee geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>

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

. Thanks folks, -- --chuck goolsbee geek wrangler, digital.forest inc, bothell, wa <http://www.forest.net>

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

Brilliant. Why did not you try "telnet 80"? Just because random packets spewed by traceroute are dropped on the floor does not mean that the site is dead. As I stated to many in off-list mail last night, we were unable to get to that IP on any port. It was not just traceroute. My original em

Need (temporary) bandwidth in NYC/Lower Manhattan, ASAP.

here deliver a megabit or so bandwidth to that location? 802.11, DSL, whatever... BY MONDAY??? If so, please contact me ASAP, off-list. BTW: This client came to us under very similar circumstances (as a colo) and has been with us ever since. Great folks. Regards, -- Chuck Goolsbee

Re: Need (temporary) bandwidth in NYC/Lower Manhattan, ASAP.

We have a large client who is moving into a new office space on Broadway in lower Manhattan *this weekend* and they just learned their DS1 (provided by Verizon, IP by UUnet) has been pushed back to July 2nd. The situation to my knowledge is resolved. Thanks for the swift assistance. --chuck

Re: Addresses for latest spam

On Tue, 08 Jun 2004 11:24:49 PDT, Gregory Hicks said: Isn't this called a "dictionary" attack? Well... if you want to get technical, it's a subclass of dictionary attack - the only question being how the dictionary is created. The specific term you are looking for, I believe is "Directory Harvest

Cox.net contact?

If there is anyone here from cox.net, I'd appreciate being contacted offlist. ("Normal channels" are frustratingly unresponsive at this time.) Customers we share are having issues we need to resolve for them. Thanks in advance, -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Techn

Re: Hurricane Frances telecommunication outages

Steven, if there is anything we can do to help, let me know. (I know I'd appreciate the same should we have a similar situation, though here it is earthquakes and/or volcanic eruption.) -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Techn

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

s. They are used to obscure words to get past filters, or as red herring targets or joe-jobs. A DDoS is a DDoS, no matter how "benign" one might think it is, or how "evil/deserving" the target is perceived to be. The risk of collateral damage is way too high. --

Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened and Yahoo isn'tblocking it

Next time there's a project like this that's going to have a big first day spike it'd make sense to do load shedding and divert peak traffic to a server that says "sorry, we're overloaded, please come back tomorrow and don't panic because you have until the end of July to sign up and be on the fir

Need hardware help in Seattle/Portland area.

, provided they can meet the requirements above. Thanks in advance. *The terminally curious can ask for the story, but the telling may have to wait until my present situation is resolved. Regards, -- Chuck Goolsbee Geek Wrangler

Re: Email virus protection

r, both as sender and receiver (supposedly from Valdis Kletnieks, and somebody at NetSol.) and I've never seen what an Outlook mail client looks like. =) I have to agree with Mr. Donelan who said here: "(Microsoft) Outlook, the exploding Pinto on the information superhighway.&q

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

for their price... they were the lowest bid we received for an overnight, Saturday-delivery shipper. They performed as advertised. The 'non-critical" equipment (racks, cabinets, spare servers, etc.) were shipped ground, and unlike the overnight, it was beat to hell. Go f

Anyone here from Earthlink?

Please contact me offlist. "Normal contact methodologies" have failed, and a problem is now four days old. Thank you. -- Chuck Goolsbee V.P. Technical Operations _ digital.forest

Re: Anyone here from Earthlink?

Please contact me offlist. "Normal contact methodologies" have failed, and a problem is now four days old. Thanks for the swift replies from Earthlink/Mindspring staff (three!) Problem still ongoing, but at least we are talking/working on it now. Regards, -- Chuc

Re: Nothing like viruses with bugs in them (Swen)

zarre behavior of some recent mailers that send "forwards" as obviously W32-readable-only attachments? --chuck goolsbee -- __ There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for; there comes a point where you compensate for so mu

Re: contact at yahoo mail? (they think we're an open relay :< )

ed to hide job hunting from current employers? =) --chuck goolsbee -- __ There's only so much stupidity you can compensate for; there comes a point where you compensate for so much stupidity that it starts to cause problems for the

Re: AOL fixing Microsoft default settings

, unlike so may others here on NANOG. On the other hand, I also have a .sig which is a quote from one of my staff, which illustrates another slippery factor of this particular slope... --chuck goolsbee -- __ There's only so much stupi

Hijacked IP space.

from. The client in question are good folks, and I hate to see their reputation tainted by the actions of others. Thanks, --chuck goolsbee, digital.forest

Re: Spamcop

I would agree with your analogy if Spamcop limited automatic reporting to subset of the community. The problem is they do not. In Spamcop's defence, it seems that their systems were never designed to handle the wide variety of 'attack vectors" that spam uses today. Spamcop also operates on the a

Re: Worms versus Bots

> In other words: if one is stupid, one gets worm'ed or bot'ed. However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid: http://www.silicon.com/software/security/0,39024655,39118228,00.htm Any network security scheme that fails to either (a) lower the stupidity rate or (b) deliver a system that will protect

Re: Worms versus Bots

At 4:19 PM -0500 5/4/04, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: chuck goolsbee wrote: However, up to 90% of the users *are* stupid: I didn't say that, I only quoted (Valdis Kletnieks) it... to which I replied that compensating for stupidity is a zero-sum game. Seriosuly though, the Internet might

Re:Destructive botnet originating from Japan

d the vast variation of PHP versions we see still in use on various colo servers. Another year, yet another variation of whack-a-mole. --chuck goolsbee

Re: GoDaddy.com shuts down entire data center?

I think the main thing I learned from that is that there are a surprising number of hosting companies and self-professed data centre operators who really don't know much about the DNS. Or even what the word "datacenter" means. Sounds to me like a rack of servers or a cage was suspended, not

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

n all the above. Too often it falls under the latter category it seems. Since we're in the hosting/colo business PHP web forms seem to be the vast majority of issues lately. I'd love to know what cluebats or magic bullets are available for whacking this particular mole most effectiv

Need remote hands in Marin (San Rafael, CA)

Familiarity with Copper Mountain Copper Edge 150 DSLAM a bonus. Will exchange cash or at a future NANOG meeting for assistance. Call or email if available: p. 206-838-1630, option 1, ext 2001 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, --chuck goolsbee, digital.forest, seattle

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

At 7:03 PM -0400 6/14/06, Matt Buford wrote: There is also strong demand among web hosting customers to scatter sites across multiple /24's due to search engine optimization. I hear this line of thinking often, but to me it sounds like bulls^X^X^X^X^X... um, "folklore". When our customers/sal

Re: Interesting new spam technique - getting a lot more popular.

At 2:35 PM -0400 6/15/06, Matt Buford wrote: But how could this possibly be IP abuse or evil (except perhaps in the eyes of the search engines)? What difference does it make to ARIN if I give a customer 30 IPs from a single /24 or 30 IPs from 30 different /24s? How is that customer using th

Re: WSJ: Big tech firms seeking power

I wonder just how much power it takes to cool 450,000 servers. I've heard mumbles that the per kWh rates from Bonneville in the locations along the Columbia are in the sub-4¢ range. Grant county is seeing a huge fiber building boom as a result. It will be more wired up than King county s

Re: AOL Mail Problem

malgamated. I wish I could say the same for Yahoo, Comcast, MSN/Hotmail, etc etc. (ESPECIALLY Yahoo!) --chuck goolsbee digital.forest, seattle

Re: AOL Mail Problem

with them yet? If so, you wouldn't be having anything blocked. --chuck goolsbee digital.forest seattle, wa

Re: Anyone else lost power at Fisher Plaza this afternoon?

If anyone else lost power at Internap's Fisher Plaza facility in Seattle this afternoon and have any info related to exact duration or cause please hit me back off-list. Isn't this like the 2nd or 3rd event at Fisher of late? Any answers Jonathan? Has Fisher owned up to the cause yet? I did

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

If you don't have water-based fire suppression, have normally unoccupied spaces, and are continuously manned, it's sometimes possible to pass on having an EPO. YMMV by inspector. That is indeed true, as we were able to have ours disconnected, and were able to expand our facility without addi

Seeking a Clue at AS32445 or their peers...

If there is anyone with a clue at AS32445, or their adjacent networks (which appear from here to be AS174 & AS5769) could you please contact us at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or +1-206-838-1630, ext 2031. We've had an ongoing DoS attack from your network for the past two days. It would nice to stop it

Re: Sun Project Blackbox / Portable Data Center

Or say, lots of processing somewhere short term - like video editing/rendering/whatever at the Olympic games. Rendering maybe, but editing needs human space... http://www.confidencebay.com --chuck

Re: dns authority changes and lame servers

This report used to be quite useful in that regard: http://www.cymru.com/DNS/lame.html Perhaps Rob needs a coffee injection to get that going again? (BTW: Need/want some more of our famous "Colo Blend" Mr. Thomas?) --chuck

Re: Any help for Yahoo! Mail arrogance?

I've missed it. --chuck goolsbee **who seem to have all been drawn like moths to a flame into the companies my company has acquired over the years... as if to punish ME for some past transgression!

BellSouth.net Mail Operator? (was:Re: Any help for Yahoo!...)

m your end. Regards, --chuck goolsbee answering at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206-838-1630, ext 2001

Re: Getting DSL at your datacenter for OOB

We've been trying to get DSL (instead of dial-up via a POTS line) at our datacenters for out-of-band access. We tried here (Intergate.Seattle in Tukwila) and came up empty also, fell back on POTS. Have you thought about just getting IP from other providers in the building? I thought it wou

Re: unwise filtering policy from cox.net

(I'm sure many readers of the list know *that* feeling - you found and fixed the problem before the first complaint arrives, but you still get deluged by more complaints for another week or so...) Or another 6 months from AOL ;-] No... for AOL add 6 MORE months + three days

RE: Yahoo! Mail/Sys Admin

Do you have any users who forward their email to their free @yahoo.com addresses from your server? That is likely the core of Justin's problem. We've found the way to minimize issues with yahoo mail are: 1. Clean up (ideally eliminate) the .forwarders on your end. This requires some

Re: rack power question

i am vexed at the moment by the filtration costs. What is it that is clogging your filters? Dust? Pollen? Small animals?? We're in a similar situation to you, though even better as we're blessed by even cooler ambients and never see 100°F, or even close to it. So we're using make-up air 12

Re: fiber switch for gig

As another Procurve user (also 3500's)...I'd point out that Procurve has a lifetime warranty on their gear. ...and the stuff seems to last forever too. We still have quite a few 4000M-series 80-port switches in production, as well as newer models. They are bulletproof... just run and run and

Re: Yahoo Mail Update

An anonymous source at Yahoo told me that they have pushed a config update sometime today out to their servers to help with these deferral issues. Please don't ask me to play proxy on this one of any other issues you may have, but take a look at your queues and they should be ge

Did Cogent & L3 de-peer again?

We've had a few customers report issues. We don't see anything too bad from here, but Keynote scoreboard has been showing some ugly between those two networks for the past hour or so. It has been about a year since the last time hasn't it? --chuck in seattle

re: passports for NANOG-39, Toronto

At 2:26 PM +0100 10/26/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://travel.state.gov/travel/tips/regional/regional_1170.html December 31, 2007 - Passport required for all land border crossings, as well as air and sea travel. FWIW I live near the WA/BC (US/CDN) border and cross it often (at least

Re: Yahoo Postmaster contact, please

Greetings, NANOGers. I've got a mail cluster that's been spooling about 5 messages for the past week or so (with very little drain and traffic passing), and my mail admin reports that attempted contacts to the Yahoo Postmaster are not getting answered. Can someone over there drop me a line

Re: Yahoo! Mail Servers

At 12:29 PM -0800 11/4/06, Dave Mitchell wrote: number of emails and being traffic shaped. To have your legitimate mailservers added to a white list, please refer to the following info. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html I've filled in the form. And I'm pretty sure this i

Re: Yahoo! Mail Servers

At 5:49 PM -0800 11/5/06, chuck goolsbee wrote: At 12:29 PM -0800 11/4/06, Dave Mitchell wrote: number of emails and being traffic shaped. To have your legitimate mailservers added to a white list, please refer to the following info. http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer-06.html

RE: IP adresss management verification

nt you Google-folk!) It pisses me off to no end when a sales guy comes to me with a request from a customer for a /20 for a half-rack of web servers. The justification ALWAYS comes down to this inane "search engine optimization" pipe dream. =\ --chuck goolsbee *** *** Waiting now

Re: IP adresss management verification

At 9:50 AM -0800 11/14/06, Warren Kumari wrote: >On Nov 13, 2006, at 9:20 AM, chuck goolsbee wrote: >> ** I assume it is myth, but I've never heard anyone from Google make any >> statements that definitively debunks it. Debunking this pervasive among >> webmasters a

Re: Collocation Access

I've never been asked to allow someone else to retain my passport or driver's license. Exodus used to do this. ...and look where that got them! They (Exodus) also had, at least here in Seattle at the 12301 Tukwila facility, the grungiest palm scanner in the world. Thankfully I never had

Re: Collocation Access

Indeed. I'm surprised the market hasn't produced facilities with better thought through and executed security and access controls. Is there not enough competition in each metro area for anything other than lowest common denominator? From what I've seen? No. At the moment, the top priority

Westin Seattle Outage?

We just saw one of our gig-e circuits to the Westin bounce three times and another just go flatline in the past hour. On hold for a couple of NOCs at the moment trying to figure out wtf is going on. Anyone have solid info? --chuck

Re: Westin Seattle Outage?

We just saw one of our gig-e circuits to the Westin bounce three times and another just go flatline in the past hour. Answering my own question I know, but the OnFiber/Qwest guys I spoke to informed me that they heard the Westin had some sort of backup power scheduled maintenance go wrong. T

Re: Westin Seattle Outage?

there was a power test of some kind, and a generator flaked or something. I've requested more detailed info, but have yet to receive it. From what I understand, it affected more than just one provider. Here's the RFO I saw late last night: During a planned generator test that was being perfo

Re: NOC Personel Question (Possibly OT)

Sorry if this is OT but we are having a discussion with our HR department. We are in the process of getting a 24 X 7 NOC in place and HR has a problem with calling them NOC Specialist. We're 24x7 and we get by just fine without an HR department. It has worked fine for 13 years, and will conti

RE: PG&E on data centre cooling..

There's at least one datacenter in Seattle that when the customer "cards" in, lights up the floor to their cabinet Been a while since I've been in it, but I remember it "USED" to do that (fisher, internap I think?) Perhaps the infamous "unescorted customer EPO button-push incident of

Re: AOL Postmaster?

Anybody from AOL on this list? Could you please send me an email offlist? I need some help. Have you pursued every avenue of contact listed at: ? I've found them to be GENERALLY pretty responsive on those channels, as have many others. --chuck

RE: AOL Postmaster?

I'm still getting feedback on netblocks we haven't been associated with in several years and I've tried about 20 times to get them to stop it but cannot. If you call they just tell you to email, if you email you get nowhere. David Some general, useful NANOG collected wisdom: "It is so easy

Re: 24x7 Support Strategies

Does anybody actually put any stock in the presence or absence of vendor certifications on a resume when judging the capabilities of an engineer? No stock whatsoever. In fact when we advertise open positions we stress that experience and capability are FAR more important to us than certifica

Diesel storage (was:RE: 24x7 Support Strategies)

And what about all those diesel generators? How many of them are capable of running on vegetable oil rather than diesel oil? I regularly walk past a building in London that reeks because of the diesel fuel tanks in the basement. You have to wonder about the safety of storing large amounts of pet

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among small actors to achieve such leadership. You left out: The "killer-app." Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. The IPv-ONLY g

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

You don't believe the killer app will be "sorry, no more IP addresses?" Nope. Not at all. --chuck