NTP Reflections - New article on RIPE Labs by John Kristoff

2014-01-22 Thread Mirjam Kuehne
Hello, After the recent amplification attacks involving NTP servers, John Kristoff, a researcher with Team Cymru, kindly agreed to publish an analysis of the history and timeline leading up to the attacks. Please find his contribution on RIPE Labs: https://labs.ripe.net/Members/mirjam/ntp-re

NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
Brent Simmons is not given to ridiculous overreaction, nor is Lauren. If you have domains registered with NetSol's registrar, it seems you should probably do your diligence on this yourself: http://inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solutions_auto-enroll_1_850 I have not been fond of NetSol s

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 $1800 for standard "Registrar Lock" services does sound a bit expensive. :-( - - ferg On 1/22/2014 10:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Brent Simmons is not given to ridiculous overreaction, nor is Lauren. > If you have domains registered with NetSol

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Barry Shein
They also will change your domains to "auto renew" magically and punch a credit card 90 days in advance of expiry so for example if a domain expires in April expect a charge in January at the latest. Why? I dunno, better to have the money now than later I guess. You'll have to jump through hoops

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Gary Buhrmaster
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Barry Shein wrote: > P.S. Doing that, removing auto-renew, changes you to receiving urgent > email from them once a week or so starting 90 days in advance about > how your domain is ABOUT TO EXPIRE! Sort of reminds me of the late night TV ads for ginsu knives

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 22, 2014, at 14:20 , Barry Shein wrote: > They also will change your domains to "auto renew" magically and punch > a credit card 90 days in advance of expiry so for example if a domain > expires in April expect a charge in January at the latest. Why? I > dunno, better to have the money no

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" > After the issues with NetSol over the last year, why would anyone keep > their domains with that registrar? Better question: are they still the *registry*? And how do stupid policies like this on the part of one bode for the other? Ch

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Better question: are they still the *registry*? No, and they haven't been for many years. You're thinking of Verisign. It owned NetSol at one time, but sold the registrar end (which is what's still called Network Solutions) in 2003

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Tim Donahue" > We ported this to an underlying carrier (the guilty party shall remain > nameless), and according to their engineers they have no option to > disable the SSC. > > I actually have no idea if the call I am making is blocked at the local > switch

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - > From: "Andrew Sullivan" > On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 03:01:03PM -0500, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Better question: are they still the *registry*? > > No, and they haven't been for many years. You're thinking of > Verisign. It owned NetSol at one time, but sold the regist

above.net latencies

2014-01-22 Thread Dennis Burgess
Seeing high latency's between LGA and PHL on above.net.. Saw this last night as well but went away by morning.. Anyone confirm or have any status? 8 9 ms 9 ms 9 ms ae5.cr1.ord2.us.above.net [64.125.28.233] 931 ms31 ms31 ms ae6.cr1.lga5.us.above.net [64.125.24

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions

2014-01-22 Thread Adam Rothschild
How is this considered even remotely relevant to the NANOG list? VoiceOps, I can sort of see... On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> From: "Tim Donahue" > >> We ported this to an underlying carrier (the guilty party shall remain >> nameless), an

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Hennigan
On 1/22/14 10:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Brent Simmons is not given to ridiculous overreaction, nor is Lauren. > > If you have domains registered with NetSol's registrar, it seems you > should probably do your diligence on this yourself: > > http://inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solution

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Farrell
Updated: http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/22/web-com-weblock-program-will-be-opt-in-not-opt-out/ --quote-- In an interview with Domain Name Wire today, Web.com COO Jason Teichman said the program will actually be opt-in, and no one will be charged for the service unless they agree to add it. “C

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 So basically they are charging $1800 for 'Registrar Lock'? Opt-in or Opt-out, it's still way expensive... - - ferg On 1/22/2014 3:49 PM, Jay Farrell wrote: > Updated: > > http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/22/web-com-weblock-program-will-be-opt-

Re: [VoiceOps] Phone Numbers with Calling Restrictions

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
Sorry. VO correctly doesn't set reply-to, and my MUA, Zimbra, doesn't do reply-to lisr. I typed it by hand, and put in the wrong list name. - jra Adam Rothschild wrote: >How is this considered even remotely relevant to the NANOG list? > >VoiceOps, I can sort of see... > >On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread John Levine
>> No, and they haven't been for many years. You're thinking of >> Verisign. It owned NetSol at one time, but sold the registrar end >> (which is what's still called Network Solutions) in 2003. > >Well, it's sort of metaphysical to ask which company is which, but... NetSol and Verisign have been

Fwd: [ PRIVACY Forum ] Network Solutions/Web.com apologizes for email about credit card charges

2014-01-22 Thread Jay Ashworth
NetSol: Oops. We goofed. Why they didn't clarify this when Brent queried them is unclear; I infer (but cannot, of course, prove) backpedaling. Cheers, -- jra - Forwarded Message - > From: "PRIVACY Forum mailing list" > To: privacy-l...@vortex.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 5

Re: "trivial" changes to DNS (was: OpenNTPProject.org)

2014-01-22 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 17, 2014, at 6:44 AM, Tony Finch wrote: > Jared Mauch wrote: >> >> I can point anyone interested to the place in the >> bind source to force it to reply to all UDP queries with TC=1 >> to force TCP. should be safe on any authority servers, as a recursive >> server should be able t

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > So basically they are charging $1800 for 'Registrar Lock'? > > Opt-in or Opt-out, it's still way expensive... is it though? is it REALLY?? What's the cost for a lost domain for ~1 day wh

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread John Levine
>I suppose they COULD move their domain to a registrar that does >registrar-lock for 'free', but that's a cost too, right? man power, >configuration mistakes, other billing things to setup... 1800 might be >'ok' for someone who's making a bunch of money/day. right? That is the only plausible reaso

Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

2014-01-22 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:19 AM, John Levine wrote: >>I suppose they COULD move their domain to a registrar that does >>registrar-lock for 'free', but that's a cost too, right? man power, >>configuration mistakes, other billing things to setup... 1800 might be >>'ok' for someone who's making a bu