RE: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Keith Medcalf
There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? Now where would those be found, I wonder. All I have ever seen is macro-streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the worst being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company called MacroVirus Media or

Re: anycast load balancing issue

2012-01-05 Thread Johannes Resch
Hi, On 04.01.2012 13:02, Måns Nilsson wrote: > [..snipped..] > Trouble is, we find that (untweaked) cost and metric are such that all nodes are equal. The last resort (peer router ID) gets invoked and all traffic goes to one single instance. Of course, when that instance falls off the net rec

Re: Internet Edge and Defense in Depth

2012-01-05 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:44:05PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > Cramming every little feature under the sun into one appliance makes for > great glossy brochures and Powerpoint decks, but I just don't think it's > practical. 1. It's an excellent way to create a single point-of-failure. 2. I p

Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? > > Now where would those be found, I wonder.  All I have ever seen is > macro-streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- the > worst being something called FlashVi

Re: Internet Edge and Defense in Depth

2012-01-05 Thread Mike Andrews
On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:22:55AM -0500, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 01:44:05PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > > Cramming every little feature under the sun into one appliance makes for > > great glossy brochures and Powerpoint decks, but I just don't think it's > > practical.

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip With all due respect to Vint, I think that it isn't now, but it will be. Regards Marshall > > But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments make > Internet access the most pra

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 10:22:52AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a > society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone, > and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that so

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
I agree with Vint here. Basic human rights are access to food, clothing and shelter. I think we are still struggling in the world with that. With your logic one would expect the radio and TV to be a basic human right but they are not, they are and will remain powerful medium which be enablers of so

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Aled Morris
On 5 January 2012 15:22, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Understand: I'm not saying that FiOS should be a human right. But as a > society, America's recognized for decades that you gotta have a telephone, > and subsidized local/lifeline service to that extent; that sort of subsidy > applies to cellular ph

question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Eric J Esslinger
Hope yall had an 'eventless' holiday. (I.e. no pages at 2 am on a holiday morning). Sorry to drop what is possibly just someone misunderstanding something or pulling my leg on the list, but over the holidays I ran into one of my buddies that is also a network admin type and he was griping about

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Zaid Ali" > On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: > > >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip > > > >But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments > >make Internet access the most practical/only practical way to interact > >with

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Leo Bicknell" > Broadband, to me, is not a human right. It is something that makes our > society more efficient, and improves the quality of life for virtually > every citizen, so I do think the government has a role and interest in > seeing widespread, if no

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Zaid Ali" > >> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >> >> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip >> > >> >But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our governments >> >make Internet a

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:09:59AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Broadband, to me, is not a human right. It is something that makes our > > society more efficient, and improves the quality of life for virtually > > every citizen, so I do think the government has a role and in

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
On 1/5/12 8:07 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >- Original Message - >> From: "Zaid Ali" > >> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >> >> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip >> > >> >But I wonder to what degree that's dependent on how much our >>governments >> >make Internet access th

Comcast Postmaster...

2012-01-05 Thread Matt Kelly
Would a comcast postmaster be so kind as to contact me off list? Thanks. -- Matt

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Dave Israel
On 1/5/2012 11:29 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: In a message written on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:09:59AM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: Didn't *say* broadband. Didn't even say "Internet service". Said "Internet *access*", in the non-techspeak meaning of those words. For the purposes of my e-mail and th

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 08:29:05 PST, Leo Bicknell said: > But let's take a specific (famous) example. Kevin Mitnick. From > his wikipedia page: > > "During his supervised release, which ended on January 21, 2003, he was > initially forbidden to use any communications technology other than a >

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:09:59 EST, Jay Ashworth said: > Didn't *say* broadband. Didn't even say "Internet service". Said "Internet > *access*", in the non-techspeak meaning of those words. There are those who would say "Free Internet access is available at the Public Library and the Community Ce

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Ray Soucy
It's an interesting question. Most think of the Internet in the context of entertainment and productivity. I would ask that those who do remove themselves from the US (or any other prosperous nation) and think about Internet access in nations that are oppressed or depressed. 1. The Internet allo

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 11:48:06AM -0500, Dave Israel wrote: > As an aside, your example is flawed, because judicial punishment does > involve a loss, or at least a curtailment, of what many people consider > to be basic rights. In a message written on Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at

Router Assessment Tool

2012-01-05 Thread Green, Timothy
Happy New Year All!!! I'm trying to perform STIG compliancy on various Cisco equipment. Has anybody used the Router Assessment Tool (RAT) for routers and switches? Any cheap (free) recommendations? As a last ditch effort I could use NMAP. Thanks, Tim

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Jon Schipp
I think there's a fundamental difference between human and civil rights. Human rights come from our humanity, i.e. us being human. As humans, we can walk, talk, produce things, own property, etc. Assuming that isn't true, the next logical question is where do you draw the line? Vehicles are benef

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 12:34:32 EST, Jon Schipp said: > I think the idea that food, shelter etc. are human rights is absurd. > Doesn't that imply that someone must provide those things for me? What > if they don't want to? Does that mean they are forced to? Which would > be a violation of their human

RE: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Eric J Esslinger
Based on a some I have received off list it seems no-one has ever heard of such a proposal that has had any serious traction so I assume the gentleman was either mistaken, paranoid, or trying to pull a joke on me. Thank you for the responses everyone. You can now get back to your regularly sche

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Kevin Stange
On 01/05/2012 11:34 AM, Jon Schipp wrote: > I think the idea that food, shelter etc. are human rights is absurd. > Doesn't that imply that someone must provide those things for me? What > if they don't want to? Does that mean they are forced to? Which would > be a violation of their human rights.

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Zaid Ali
On 1/5/12 9:34 AM, "Jon Schipp" wrote: >I think there's a fundamental difference between human and civil rights. > >Human rights come from our humanity, i.e. us being human. As humans, >we can walk, talk, produce things, own property, etc. > >Assuming that isn't true, the next logical question

RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> > I think the idea that food, shelter etc. are human rights is absurd. > > Doesn't that imply that someone must provide those things for me? > What > > if they don't want to? Does that mean they are forced to? Which would > > be a violation of their human rights. > > There are those who think th

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/5/2012 7:36 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip With all due respect to Vint, I think that it isn't now, but it will be. With all due respect for the view that it will be, I'll suggest that this enti

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread William Herrin
Free Speech is a human right. It's still a human right when that speech is conveyed over the Internet. To the extent that a government obstructs Internet access by its citizens, it is obstructing a human right. In a capitalist society, human rights are about obstruction, not compulsion. The right

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Ray Soucy
If you search for "email archiving" instead of journaling you'll come up with a lot more information. It dates back to court rule changes in 2006. Most of it is hype because of [largely incorrect] articles like this one (just one of the first hits): http://www.itworld.com/security/55954/law-requ

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread William Herrin
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > His response was there is legislation being pushed in both > House and Senate that would require journalling for 2 or 5 > years, all mail passing through all of your mail servers. Hi Eric, The only relatively recent thing I'm aware of i

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:42:50 EST, William Herrin said: > The really odd thing is that the act also says: > > `(2) Access to a record or information required to be retained under > this subsection may not be compelled by any person or other entity > that is not a governmental entity.' > > What does

RE: AD and enforced password policies

2012-01-05 Thread Jones, Barry
'Either way, expiring often is the first and most effective step at making the lusers hate you and will only bring the Post-It(tm) makers happy.' If you want to make them really, really unhappy, implement a rotating user ID coupled with an often expiring password policy. For example, User ID jj

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:42 AM, William Herrin wrote: > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Eric J Esslinger > wrote: >> His response was there is legislation being pushed in both >> House and Senate that would require journalling for 2 or 5 >> years, all mail passing through all of your mail servers

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Franck Martin
On 1/5/12 8:07 , "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >- Original Message - >> From: "Zaid Ali" > >> On 1/5/12 7:22 AM, "Jay Ashworth" wrote: >> >> >Vint Cerf says no: http://j.mp/wwL9Ip >> > > >The question here is "is *access to* the Internet a human right, >something >which the government ought t

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 5, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:42 AM, William Herrin wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Eric J Esslinger >> wrote: >>> His response was there is legislation being pushed in both >>> House and Senate that would require journalling for 2 or 5 >

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Franck Martin
Universal Access vs Universal Service It is important to understand the difference. I have argued that Developing countries should only provide Universal Access as the weight of providing Universal Service is way too expensive and would tax too much the business community which is developing the

RE: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Keith Medcalf
--- ()  ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail /\  www.asciiribbon.org > On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said: > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes? > > > Now where would those be found, I

"Non-vendor neutral" hosting/colocation

2012-01-05 Thread Christopher J. Pilkington
We are experiencing an issue in NYCMNY where the hosting facility's owner, a large IXC and CLEC, is being less than cooperative in allowing the ILEC delivering a private circuit to the hosting facility. They will allow ILEC to deliver the circuit elsewhere in the building, but will not provide us a

Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Alex Brooks
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > > > > --- > ()  ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail > /\  www.asciiribbon.org > > > > On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said: > > > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > > > There is video

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Joly MacFie
I know here in NYC, when the government talks, access is defined as availability, whether utilized or not. j On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:55 AM, wrote: > On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:09:59 EST, Jay Ashworth said: > > > Didn't *say* broadband. Didn't even say "Internet service". Said > "Internet > >

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Joly MacFie
Not a new line of thinking for Vint. He said much the same thing at our INET in NYC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPc79dlLs0U What's notable is that as a "father" Vint is more aware than many of the ephemerality of the Internet, and when speculating futurewise at the INET he consistently referre

Re: Router Assessment Tool

2012-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Green, Timothy wrote: > Happy New Year All!!! > > I'm trying to perform STIG compliancy on various Cisco equipment.  Has > anybody used the Router Assessment Tool (RAT) for routers and switches?   Any > cheap (free) recommendations?  As a last ditch effort I coul

Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org

2012-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > >> Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are >> the two reasonable open standard choices.)) > > Okay by me.  Just no "Flash Video Streams" if you please. what about html5?

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Daniel Staal
On Thu, January 5, 2012 11:37 am, Zaid Ali wrote: > > If I wrote a blog article that criticized the government and it was > shutdown along with my Internet access I wouldn't say that my right to the > Internet was violated. I would say that my right to free speech was > violated. Regardless of one

OSS Systems

2012-01-05 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Hi there, Has anybody experience about running and OSS System in enterprise level? And do you have any idea about it? For example for an ISP who is running users more than 20K or 30K, there must be some good solutions to integrate all systems like: Radius, Billing Systems and CRM For example after

Re: OSS Systems

2012-01-05 Thread Leigh Porter
On 5 Jan 2012, at 22:02, "Shahab Vahabzadeh" wrote: > Hi there, > Has anybody experience about running and OSS System in enterprise level? > And do you have any idea about it? > For example for an ISP who is running users more than 20K or 30K, there > must be some good solutions to integrate al

Re: OSS Systems

2012-01-05 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Dear Leigh, Thanks for you answer, So you recommend radiator? What about analyses, you know always thinking about billing systems with staffs who does not have any idea about backend is hard ... You always have problems with operators and they make lots of exceptions, Is'nt it? And if you have time

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread John Adams
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Eric J Esslinger wrote: > > (I am speaking specifically of full email journaling, not just logs, which > I do archive for significant amounts of time.) > > I also don't want to discuss the pros, cons, merits, costs, goods, or > evils of such a requirement, just want

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Barry Shein
Sorry if someone said this but I think it's interesting that the first amendment to the US Constitution specifically lists freedom of speech AND freedom of press, rather than perhaps allowing one (speech) to imply the other (press, i.e., that speech fixed to a medium.) If we use that as a signfic

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Vadim Antonov
There are no such rights. Each positive right is somebody else's obligation. Being forced to feed, clothe, and house somebody else is called slavery. So is providing Internet access, TV, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if this slavery is part-time, the principle remains the same -- some people

RE: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
> There are no such rights. Each positive right is somebody else's obligation. > Being forced to feed, clothe, and house somebody else is called slavery. So is > providing Internet access, TV, or whatever else. Doesn't matter if this > slavery > is part-time, the principle remains the same -- some

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
I would love to ask the EFF just what you do when you don't log stuff, and then need to troubleshoot someone causing a DDoS or something from your network in a hurry. Not that I'd get any sort of a useful answer from them, beyond random propaganda that spam filtering is evil, DPI is demoniacal etc

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 09:11:30 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian said: > I would love to ask the EFF just what you do when you don't log stuff, > and then need to troubleshoot someone causing a DDoS or something from > your network in a hurry. What John actually said: > OSPs cannot be forced to provide

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
There's no shortage of stuff that reaches you 80..90 days after the fact The UK voluntary retention rules make a lot more sense, compared to "a few days", which is entirely impractical On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, wrote: > > You need to track down a miscreant user *right now*? You got the la

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Richard Barnes
The analogy that occurs to me is to roads. People generally have a right of free movement, which implies that if they are capable of using roads (e.g., if they have a car and can drive it), then they should be generally free to do so, certain reasonable legal constraints notwithstanding. And in t

Re: Whacky Weekend: Is Internet Access a Human Right?

2012-01-05 Thread Vadim Antonov
Nathan Eisenberg wrote: There are no such rights. Each positive right is somebody else's obligation. This is antisocial nonsense. If you want to be a slave, that's your right. But leave me out of your schemes, please. May I ask you to remove the guns and violence your "representatives" are

Re: "Non-vendor neutral" hosting/colocation

2012-01-05 Thread Joly MacFie
I could be mistaken but I think similar circumstances were what originally led to the establishment of Telx's IXP at 60 Hudson. j On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Christopher J. Pilkington wrote: > We are experiencing an issue in NYCMNY where the hosting facility's > owner, a large IXC and CLEC,

Re: anycast load balancing issue

2012-01-05 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: anycast load balancing issue Date: Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 04:12:33PM +0100 Quoting Johannes Resch (j...@xor.at): > >Any clues? > Since you mention route-reflector route selection - are you already > using per-VRF, per-PE route distinguishers for that L3VPN instance? Problem solved -

Re: "Non-vendor neutral" hosting/colocation

2012-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
> We are experiencing an issue in NYCMNY where the hosting facility's > owner, a large IXC and CLEC, is being less than cooperative in > allowing the ILEC delivering a private circuit to the hosting > facility. move to a carrier-neutral facility. unless you do that, the beatings will continue. r