Re: 44/8

2019-07-23 Thread James Downs
> On Jul 23, 2019, at 18:44, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Not entirely true. A lot of 44/8 subnets are used for transporting amateur > radio information across the internet and/or for certain limited applications > linking amateur radio and the internet. In the mid 90's we (an ISP) announced the sp

Re: OT: Tech bag

2019-08-02 Thread James Downs
On Fri, Aug 02, 2019 at 11:19:08AM -0500, Hunter Fuller wrote: > This one has since been released, and it has a laptop compartment. My Yeah, I definitely look for some sort of laptop compartment. If not padded on its own, I stick the laptop into a padded sleeve. I run one of these: https://tactic

Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

2019-08-05 Thread James Downs
On Mon, Aug 05, 2019 at 12:24:55PM -0400, Bryan Fields wrote: > contract. This scares the shit out of me as a customer; could cloudflare > decide to give me no notice and shut my services off? So much for the "free-speech absolutist".

Re: Death of the Internet, Film at 11

2016-10-21 Thread James Downs
> On Oct 21, 2016, at 17:39, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > P.S. To all of you Ayn Rand devotees out there who still vociferously > argue that it's nobody else's business how you monitor or police your > "private" networks, and who still refuse to take even minimalist steps What does Ayn Rand ha

Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT

2016-11-28 Thread James Downs
On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 09:53:41AM -0800, Kasper Adel wrote: > Would this be an acceptable offering in today's IT from different type of > Enterprises (Minux the Googles, Facebooks...etc) ? The comments from others on this thread have some good points to make, but in my experience, even at places

Re: California fires: smart speakers and emergency alerts

2018-07-26 Thread James Downs
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 12:31:31PM -0500, Chris Boyd wrote: > That’s about 1.85 meter wavelength, so a quarter wave antenna would be pretty > large. I’m sure the RF engineers can come up with a way to listen > effectively without a huge antenna. For 162Mhz, a 1/4 wave antenna would have a vert

Re: Rising sea levels are going to mess with the internet

2018-07-27 Thread James Downs
On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 03:49:13PM -0400, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Compound interest is a bitch. Sure is, but a numerically fixed change YoY is not compound interest.

Re: SMTP Over TLS on Port 26 - Implicit TLS Proposal [Feedback Request]

2019-01-12 Thread James Downs
> On Jan 12, 2019, at 08:14, Viruthagiri Thirumavalavan wrote: > My solution is intended for clients. A client should decide whether to > transmit mails in clear text or not. You should spend some time doing research by reading RFCs, and doing a little searching on the internet. Your proposal

Re: (Netflix/GlobalConnect a/s) Scheduled Open Connect Appliance upgrade is starting

2019-01-13 Thread James Downs
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 06:01:24PM -0800, Seth Mattinen wrote: > That's the primary reason I am plain text only: people that think > they're being whimsical by picking fonts and colors that are hard to read. Now if only we could get everyone to stop top-posting.

Re: the e-mail of the future is the e-mail oft the past, was Enough port 26 talk...

2019-01-15 Thread James Downs
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 06:46:07PM +0100, Tei wrote: > Is very hard to replace a open protocol, wrapping may work if the > protocol is mostly abandoned (IRC) but thats not the case for email. IRC is far from abandonded. There are lots of very active networks, 2 of which I use continously. But,

Re: A Zero Spam Mail System [Feedback Request]

2019-02-17 Thread James Downs
> On Feb 17, 2019, at 19:26, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > I was thinking more of the guy who was convinced that each octet in an IPV4 > address could store 0 through 256. That's what the overflow flag is for, right?

Re: Conference Videos

2017-03-13 Thread James Downs
On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 04:52:01PM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > Another organization I'm in has a hard policy of no recordings of any > sessions at their conferences. They think that recordings of content (even > vendor-sponsored, vendor-specific sessions with vendor consent) would have a > cata

Re: Companies using public IP space owned by others for internal routing

2017-12-17 Thread James Downs
> On Dec 17, 2017, at 14:33, Matt Hoppes > wrote: > > Had a previous employee or I discovered it on the network segment after we > had some weird routing issues and had to get that cleaned up. I don't know > why anyone would do that when there is tons of private IP space. Unless there isn't.

Re: non operational question related to IP

2010-11-22 Thread James Downs
On Nov 22, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Greg Whynott wrote: anyone happen to know how the OS's are interpreting the 010? doesn't appear work out in base[2-10] (1010,101,22,20,14,13,12,11,10,A) Looks base 8 to me. -j

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-11-28 Thread James Downs
On Nov 28, 2010, at 1:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: anyone know why https://www.wikileaks.org/ is not reachable? nations state level censors trying to close the barn door after the horse has Reported they were under attack: http://bgg.lv/h2pmsd

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-08 Thread James Downs
On Dec 8, 2010, at 12:30 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: I would say the attack falls under the jurisdiction of the US secret service since this is an attack on the financial system. "Today the agency's primary investigative mission is to safeguard the payment and financial systems of the United

Re: How to catch a cracker in the US?

2014-03-13 Thread James Downs
On Mar 13, 2014, at 12:24 PM, William Herrin wrote: > I'm afraid my google-fu doesn't reach back to the 1960's. You don't > happen to have a handy reference do you? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_%28term%29

Re: airgap / negligent homicide charge

2011-11-14 Thread James Downs
On Nov 14, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: > And here's a quote from a legal textbook: > in this area of the law to those of the public. In other > words, society may require of a person not to be awkward If only that were more generally true. -j

Re: [tor-talk] William was raided for running a Tor exit node. Please help if you can.

2012-11-30 Thread James Downs
On Nov 30, 2012, at 7:20 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: > As well you could be, because you appear to have the same name as a > registered sex offender: Hey, that's a fun game: http://www.sexoffenderin.com/reg77161/william_a_simpsonmugshot.htm

Re: cable markers for marine environments

2012-03-08 Thread James Downs
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: > My preference is for a direct printing system rather than stock card markers. Don't bother. Unless something revolutionary has come out recently, attach-on-to products are the only way to go. In my experience all the labels have to be maint

Re: Whois data compromised?

2012-06-26 Thread James Downs
On Jun 26, 2012, at 2:44 PM, Eric Rosenberry wrote: > Not sure where this data got injected into the system (or who knows, > perhaps it's a DNS injection attack or something), but this certainly is It's an old trick, been around forever. You just register some random A record with a registrar.

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread James Downs
On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:23 AM, david raistrick wrote: > When the hardware is outsourced how would you propose testing the > non-software components? They do simulate availability zone issues (and AZ > is as close as you get to controlling which internal power/network/etc grid > you're attached t

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread James Downs
On Jul 2, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Paul Graydon wrote: > back-plane / control-plane was unable to cope with the requests. Netflix > uses Amazon's ELB to balance the traffic and no back-plane meant they were > unable to reconfigure it to route around the problem. Someone needs to define back-plane/c

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread James Downs
On Jul 2, 2012, at 1:20 PM, david raistrick wrote: > Amazon resources are controlled (from a consumer viewpoint) by API - that API > is also used by amazon's internal toolkits that support ELB (and RDS..). > Those (http accessed) API interfaces were unavailable for a good portion of > the ou

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-02 Thread James Downs
On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Rodrick Brown wrote: > People are acting as if Netflix is part of some critical service they stream > movies for Christ sake. Some acceptable level of loss is fine for 99.99% of > Netflix's user base just like cable, electricity and running water I suffer a > few h

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-03 Thread James Downs
On Jul 3, 2012, at 6:11 AM, Dan Golding wrote: > Also, I don't think there is an acceptable level of downtime for water. > Neither do water utilities. I remember a certain conversation I had with a web-developer. We were talking about "zero downtime releases". He thought it was acceptable if t

Re: FYI Netflix is down

2012-07-06 Thread James Downs
On Jul 6, 2012, at 1:50 PM, Dan Golding wrote: > This happens all the time. Not saying Netflix is doing this, but lots of > other folks are. It’s a trap that’s easy to fall into. Especially with Netflix did the reverse. The moved *to* Amazon, so they could do "noops".

Re: Software Defined Networking

2015-09-07 Thread James Downs
> On Sep 4, 2015, at 07:40, Rod Beck wrote: > > Can anyone provide references on this top so I can educate myself? What do you mean when you say “software defined networking”? Do you have a particular problem or use case you are approaching? Cheers, -j

Re: VUDU thinks my network is out of the country

2015-09-17 Thread James Downs
> On Sep 17, 2015, at 08:46, Brett A Mansfield > wrote: > > I need a good contact at VUDU. I have several customers that use it that > cannot. They gave us a workaround where each and every individual customer > needs to call in and get their IP unblocked, but they aren't unblocking them > a

Re: [TECH] Pica8 & Cumulus Networks

2015-11-02 Thread James Downs
> On Nov 1, 2015, at 23:53, Yoann THOMAS wrote: > Under a Cloud project I ask myself to use equipment based on the Pica8 or > Cumulus Networks. We’ve had some great conversations with Cumulus, but more generally, I think you need to look at the cloud project’s goals. Those should help inform

Re: Broadband Router Comparisons

2015-12-27 Thread James Downs
> On Dec 27, 2015, at 17:56, Mike wrote: > The device would be cisco or juniper branded, internal redundancy / failover > features to allow hitless upgrades or module failures, have dual (preferably, After the last week or so, I wouldn’t trust a service provider who insisted on installing ju

Re: Broadband Router Comparisons

2015-12-27 Thread James Downs
> On Dec 27, 2015, at 09:43, Hugo Slabbert wrote: > Hence: https://on.google.com/hub/ The device looks cool, and sounds cool, but what data does google end up with, and what remote management can they do? Their policy pages aren’t exactly clear, and they’ve mishandled personal data a number o

Re: de-peering for security sake

2015-12-27 Thread James Downs
> On Dec 26, 2015, at 12:34, Owen DeLong wrote: > > Also, note that the only difference between a good long passphrase and a > private key is, > uh, wait, um, come to think of it, really not much. Are you equating a long PSK with PKE? They’re quite different.

Re: Broadband Router Comparisons

2015-12-27 Thread James Downs
> On Dec 27, 2015, at 20:00, Keith Medcalf wrote: > They end up with ALL the data they can capture; they have COMPLETE management > control; and, can execute whatever code they want, without your prior > approval or choice, on the device at any time they please, including > permanent changes

Re: Verizon E-Mail Contact

2016-01-19 Thread James Downs
> On Jan 19, 2016, at 14:39, Brielle Bruns wrote: > > On 1/18/16 10:38 AM, Brielle Bruns wrote: >> visit 550 http://www.verizon.net/whitelist and request removal of the >> block. 160118) > It's really really hard to contact your support department, Verizon, if you > have the same filters in p

Re: Google Contact

2016-01-26 Thread James Downs
> On Jan 26, 2016, at 09:40, Adam Loveless wrote: > > Any Google engineers that can contact me off list? Seems our address space > has been blacklisted by Google and we have to enter captchas for them now. Is that the capture that happens in front of certain websites? I had that happen for two

Re: Thank you, Comcast.

2016-02-26 Thread James Downs
> On Feb 26, 2016, at 06:31, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > ISP's should block nothing, to or from the customer, unless they make it > clear *before* selling the service (and include it in the Terms and > Conditions of Service Contract), that they are not selling an Internet > connection but are se

Re: Verizon Policy Statement on Net Neutrality

2015-02-27 Thread James Downs
> On Feb 27, 2015, at 08:11, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > transcription on an old Underwood Portable that had seen much, much > better days. You’d think they could afford a new typewriter or two with all of the Universal Service fees they’ve been collecting and not providing.

Re: Galaxy S6 is IPv6 on all US National Mobile carriers

2015-04-13 Thread James Downs
> On Apr 13, 2015, at 14:20, Ca By wrote: > Dear Amazon, Twitter, Ebay, and Reddit -- please consider this your > personal invitation to introduce IPv6 to your service. Skype doesn’t appear to have any IPv6 infrastructure. -j

Re: gmail security is a joke

2015-05-27 Thread James Downs
> On May 27, 2015, at 11:22, John R. Levine wrote: > As I've said a couple of times already, but perhaps without the capital > letters, from a security point of view, generating a NEW PASSWORD and sending > it in cleartext is no worse than sending you a one time reset link. Either > way, if

Re: Lists of VPN exit addresses?

2015-06-10 Thread James Downs
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 05:08, Roland Dobbins wrote: > Another thought is governmentally-driven censorship, something else I > encounter a lot in my travels. I was talking a few weeks ago with a developer type from China who said something to the effect of “Hosted X is a problem because while d

Re: Lists of VPN exit addresses?

2015-06-10 Thread James Downs
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 17:25, Roland Dobbins wrote: > > Yes, we all know that technical people can generally get around these sorts > of blocks, and non-technical people all too often can't. > > The majority of people aren't technical (using Facebook and Instagram all day > <> technical). I t

Re: ARIN IPV4 Countdown

2015-07-14 Thread James Downs
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 16:09, Curtis Maurand wrote: > > i think IPV6 adoption is going to be very slow. It's very difficult for the > layman to understand and that contributes to the slow rate of uptake. Who is the layman in this story? Almost every system I work with at home and in the datac

Re: Data Center operations mail list?

2015-08-11 Thread James Downs
> On Aug 11, 2015, at 06:01, Rafael Possamai wrote: > style as nanog and registered the nadcog.org domain. Nad Cog?

Re: Solar Flux

2010-04-12 Thread James Downs
On Apr 12, 2010, at 5:37 AM, todd glassey wrote: Barbie is "geek girl" or "Engineer Barbie" the idea that being a geek is offensive may have finally been put to death as it should have 20 years ago. Of course, Joel used the word "nerd", so.. So, does anyone actually talk about networks on

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring, Comcast

2010-04-12 Thread James Downs
On Apr 12, 2010, at 1:05 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: You're speculating that ITIF gets funding from Comcast, and therefore If only the ITIF released information about their funding sources. So, does Comcast contribute funds or otherwise sponsor ITIF? Does Google, Intel, or Microsoft? Cheers

Re: NANOG Digest, Vol 30, Issue 50

2010-07-19 Thread James Downs
On Jul 19, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: The single host/box had bomb making info and hit lists. Yeah, I'd shut it down too if it was on my network. Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, 360-474-7474 As would any reasonable operator. Or maybe it would have been better to not destro

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread James Downs
On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: The 1% where it was a necessary evil... dialup networking where the only routing protocol supported was RIP (v2) [netblazers] -- static IP clients had to be able to land anywhere -- but RIP only lived on the local segment, OSPF took over netwo

Re: What must one do to avoid Gmail's overachieving spam filtering?

2010-09-29 Thread James Downs
On Sep 29, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Daniel Seagraves wrote: On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Ryan Hayes wrote: Can you please not use the word "retarded" in a pejorative sense? The word "please" is probably not required, since using that word in this manner is prosecutable hate speech in some jurisd

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread James Downs
On Aug 26, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Roy wrote: I think it has become obvious that the correct definition of broadband depends on the users location. A house in the boonies is not going to get fiber, Perhaps the minimum acceptable bandwidth should vary by area. A definition of "area" could be s

Re: Issues with Gmail

2009-09-01 Thread James Downs
On Sep 1, 2009, at 1:11 PM, Dominic J. Eidson wrote: It appears to be much more a problem with gmail (the MUA) than gmail (the MDA). Gmail/imap appears to be working fine, at least from AUS. Same thing here in the US. Pop/Imap access remains solid. I never use the web interface. -j

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-09-05 Thread James Downs
On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:55 PM, Frank Bulk wrote: I'm not following you here -- which party has the right of first refusal? The incumbent companies (generally, a LEC or cable company) are able to refuse projects and also effectively prevent buildouts and upgrades from being done by a 3rd pa

Re: Rackspace outage

2009-12-18 Thread James Downs
On Dec 18, 2009, at 1:58 PM, Justin T. Sharp wrote: Rackspace seems to have a severe routing loop, which appears to have taken a lot of sites down. Does anyone have any information on this? http://status.mosso.com/2009/12/cloud-sites-dfw-investigating-current-issue.html

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-02 Thread James Downs
On Feb 2, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: We have solved 98% of this with standard configurations and templates. To deviate from this requires management approval/exception approval after an evaluation of the business risks. I would also point Chad to this book: http://bit.ly/cShEIo (

Re: NEED ANY LINK OR SAMPLE TEMPLATE FOR ROUTINE NETWORK (ISP) MAINTENANCE PLAN

2010-03-16 Thread James Downs
On Mar 16, 2010, at 4:55 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: Weekly? Is that your secret? Most of us just do a massive clean-up once a year - the next one is just 15 days away. Maybe that's the problem - go I still have a box of the plastic covers to put on the ends of the cables when t

Re: Raised floor, Solid floor... or carpet?

2010-04-01 Thread James Downs
On Apr 1, 2010, at 9:46 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Wouldn't a carpet be bad for possible fires/flames or sparks? Looks like they got 2, now... -j

Word Usage (was Re: Elad Cohen)

2019-09-20 Thread James Downs via NANOG
For the record: Slander is false *spoken* statements. Libel is false *written* statements. HTH, HAND.