Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-01 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 07:15:12PM -0700, Joe Hamelin wrote: > > The Seattle Russian Embassy is in the Westin Building just 4 floors > above the fiber meet-me-room and five floors above the NRO tap room. > They use to come ask us (an ISP) for IT help back in '96 when they > would drag an icon too f

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 10:28:38AM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > American diplomats are doing also all sort of nasty stuff in > Russia(and not only), Yes they have and for a very long time. > but that's a concern of the equivalent of FBI/NSA/etc, not operators > public discussion places,

Re: Russian diplomats lingering near fiber optic cables

2017-06-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Fri, Jun 02, 2017 at 05:52:43PM +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > > https://www.nanog.org/list > 6. Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are prohibited. > It is quite clear. That's a fair point. The crypto dev world does have a tendency to veer into two of those three (pol

Contact at archive.org

2018-02-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
Hello, If there's anyone involved with archive.org's systems team lurking around here, I'd appreciate being contacted off list. Regards, Ben -- | GPG Made Easy (GPGME) Python 3 API Maintainer, GNU Privacy Guard | | GPG key: 0x321E4E2373590E5D http://www.adversary.org/ben-key.asc | | G

Re: Contact at archive.org

2018-02-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 01:23:26PM +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: > Hello, > If there's anyone involved with archive.org's systems team > lurking around here, I'd appreciate being contacted off list. I knew there was a reason I stayed on this list even after depart

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 12:08 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > so ... should domains associated with asn(s) and addr block allocations > be subject to some expiry policy other than "it goes into the drop pool > and one of {enom,pool,...} acquire it (and the associated non-traffic > assets) for any interested

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 7/10/10 6:28 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > On 10/6/10 10:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> Number resources are not and should not be associated with domain >> resources at the policy level. This would make absolutely no sense >> whatsoever. > > hmm. ... "are not" ... so the event complained

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-07 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 8/10/10 10:00 AM, Leen Besselink wrote: > > k...@domain.tld for when you have a personal domain > key-u...@domain.tld for when you have a server which understand address > extensions Actually I think it's user+...@domain.tld for the second one. At least that's what I've seen for Postfix. Not

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 24/10/10 5:44 PM, Peter Lothberg wrote: > > How do you knew that your local NTP server knew what time it is? (for sure) By polling as many stratum 1 and 2 time servers as possible. Having your own stratum 2 server(s) beats nebulous NTP servers out in the big bad Internet every time. Regard

Re: NTP Server

2010-10-24 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 25/10/10 2:55 AM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > For those you care about that: > > http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm Wow ... that's a lot more effort than I'm willing to put in on a time server. Regards, Ben signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Tools for teaching users online safety

2010-10-27 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 27/10/10 3:01 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: > Also the FTC has set up a comprehensive site to protect kids, including a > guide for parents on kid's use of social networks. > > http://www.onguardonline.gov/ The Australian version has kids, parents and libraries as the primary focus: http://www.cyber

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 29/11/10 1:06 PM, kmedc...@dessus.com wrote: >> Uh... huh? > >>> Just so we are all straight and clear - wikileaks hit is not a >>> 'Distributed' DoS, its a simple DoS - I dont use intermediaries or >>> botnets. Sun Nov 16 - 15:28 EST > >> That would be just about 2 weeks ago. > > Actually, t

Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)

2010-12-02 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 3/12/10 3:05 PM, Ken Chase wrote: > All our topics of discussion are merging... (soon: "does > Wikileaks run on 208V?" :) > > http://www.everydns.com/ > > right hand side. > > (sorry to shift the discussion off of uucp... long live > sizone.uucp...) There is a list of mirror sites here: htt

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-08 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr wrote: >> The problem is that they were also slashdotted. The logs would also have a >> large number of unrelated. > > pro-tip: the tool has a pretty easy to spot signature. What is that signature? Reg

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 9/12/10 7:49 PM, William Pitcock wrote: > On Thu, 2010-12-09 at 18:34 +1100, Ben McGinnes wrote: >> On 9/12/10 8:04 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: >>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Dorr wrote: >>>> The problem is that they were also slashdotted. The log

Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses

2011-01-28 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 28/01/11 7:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > Let me clarify: > > The original question was (so far as I could see): "Was Fox making up the > quote where Vint took the blame for IPv4 exhaustion?" > > The answer, of course, was "no, they didn't; lots of people have the quote". If you want to see and

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 13/07/11 11:37 PM, Richard Kulawiec wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 04:13:10PM +0200, Mattias Ahnberg wrote: >> I might have missed some discussion; but why are we moving >> away from mailman, and what software is in the new system? > > Seconded. Mailman is presently the gold standard for mai

Re: NANOG List Update - Moving Forward

2011-07-14 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 15/07/11 12:24 AM, Alex Ryu wrote: > That issue can be resolved by changing email addresses for multiple > language support by using announce...@example.com, > anounce...@example.com ? Yeah, that's how I'd get around it. I think the Document Foundation had some other issues, like wanting addre

Re: How to begin making my own ISP?

2011-09-16 Thread Ben McGinnes
On 17/09/11 7:34 AM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > On 09/16/2011 04:28 PM, hass...@hushmail.com wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:02:39 -0400 Markus >> wrote: >> >> I didn't receive any such email, sorry. Try resending it if you >> still have it ? > > Maybe hushmail blocked it? :) That's not outside

Re: GeoIP database issues and the real world consequences

2016-04-13 Thread Ben McGinnes
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 08:08:29AM +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On 12/04/2016 00:41, Ricky Beam wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 12:55:11 -0400, Chris Boyd > > wrote: > >> Interesting article. > >> > >> http://fusion.net/story/287592/internet-mapping-glitch-kansas-farm/ > > ... > > > > "Until you