Re: Parler

2021-01-12 Thread Paul Timmins
"You have to let your customer's services contain death threats against the owner of your company or we'll blacklist you" is the wildest take of 2021 yet. Blocking Amazon because of who they allow to remain a customer is something I wholeheartedly encourage my competitors to do. On 1/12/21 9

Re: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Office is on NANOG?? Or, what is the policy about sharing email offlist?

2021-01-18 Thread Paul Timmins
The list has public archives. Draw your own conclusions on the policy. https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/ On 1/18/21 2:40 PM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote: Not under that impression at all. That's very different from "what is the policy" - at least in the groups I run, if the policy is

Re: SITR/SHAKEN implementation in effect today (June 30 2021)

2021-06-30 Thread Paul Timmins
On 6/30/21 2:56 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: Just because you can know (fsvo "know") that a call is allowed to assert a number doesn't change anything unless other actions are taken. With DKIM which is far simpler than STIR it would require reputation systems that don't seem to have been deploye

Re: SITR/SHAKEN implementation in effect today (June 30 2021)

2021-07-01 Thread Paul Timmins
On 7/1/21 3:53 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: And this is why this problem will not be solved. The "open relay" is making money from processing the calls, and the end carrier is making money for terminating them. Until fine(s) -- hopefully millions of them, one for each improperly terminated call,

Re: SITR/SHAKEN implementation in effect today (June 30 2021)

2021-07-02 Thread Paul Timmins
Fun part is that just because it's a telnyx number with a checkmark, it doesn't mean the call came from Telnyx, just that the call came from a carrier that gave the call attestation A. As the carrier, we can see who signed the call (it's an x509 certificate, signed by the STI-PA, with the carri

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT&T residential

2020-02-26 Thread Paul Timmins
It's okay though, because we freed up UDP/53 by moving DNS to TCP/443, so then we can move HTTPS to UDP/53. On 2/21/20 6:37 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: First we moved the entire internet to TCP/443. Now we propose moving it all to UDP/53. What’s next? Why not simply eliminate port numbers altogeth

Re: FCC: rulemaking on STIR/SHAKEN and Caller ID Authentication

2020-09-10 Thread Paul Timmins
A *LOT* goes through at least one TDM transition (so you can kiss that identity header goodbye). None of the big names in long distance termination support STIR/SHAKEN. There's about 4-5 that will do STIR/SHAKEN outside of testbed connectivity (my employer is one). One big name is still using a

Re: SRv6

2020-09-16 Thread Paul Timmins
My backyard is private. It offers no privacy with its chain link fence against a major street. On 9/16/20 4:38 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Privacy != encryption. cleartext == privacy * 0 cleartext * complexity == privacy * 0 randy

Re: BFD for routes learned trough Route-servers in IXPs

2020-09-17 Thread Paul Timmins
On 9/17/20 1:51 PM, Douglas Fischer wrote: But 30 Seconds for an IXP? It does not make any sense! Those packets are stealing CPU cycles of the Control Plane of any router in the LAN. Especially given how some exchanges lock the mac address of participants. You could probably get away with ARP

Re: SRv6

2020-09-22 Thread Paul Timmins
On 9/21/20 6:16 PM, Randy Bush wrote: yes, privacy is one aspect of security. and, as mpls vns are not private sans encryption, they are not secure. randy As my backyard is not surrounded by a cement enclosure with acoustic baffling and white noise generators inside, it's not really private

Re: Cogent ...

2022-03-31 Thread Paul Timmins
On 3/31/22 11:38, Laura Smith via NANOG wrote: However, perhaps someone would care to elaborate (either on or off-list) what the deal is with the requirement to sign NDAs with Cogent before they'll discuss things like why they still charge for BGP, or indeed any other technical or pricing matt

Re: FCC proposes higher speed goals (100/20 Mbps) for USF providers

2022-06-06 Thread Paul Timmins
How many times have I seen an installer only download the parts it needs vs just reinstall the next version right over top of the existing version? I know stuff like xplane seems to do a comparison of file signatures and only downloads the changed parts for the updates between whatever version

Re: Frontier Dark Fiber

2022-07-14 Thread Paul Timmins
Your rights under the ICA are dead. Since 2002 you were only able to order it if one end was in a tier 3 wirecenter, and it was killed in 2021 as an orderable product. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2021/01/08/2020-25254/modernizing-unbundling-and-resale-requirements-in-an-era-of-ne

Re: OffTopic: Telecom Fraud

2019-04-23 Thread Paul Timmins
I guarantee you that if carriers were made civilly or criminally liable for allowing robodialers to operate on their network, this sort of issue would end practically overnight. Robodialer calling patterns are obvious, and I'd imagine any tech could give you a criteria to search for in the CDR

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
Chris it would be trivial for this to be fixed, nearly overnight, by creating some liability on the part of carriers for illicit use of caller ID data on behalf of their customers. But the carriers don't want that, so now we have to create tons of technical half solutions to solve a problem th

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
Pretty simply - Sending caller ID to commit fraud. It's literally already illegal. The legislature has already defined it for us, even. 47 USC 227 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/227 (B) to initiate any telephone call to any residential telephone line using an artificial or prereco

Re: SHAKEN/STIR Robocall Summit - July 11 2019 at FCC

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Timmins
uld just be one more risk we'd take into account. -Paul On 7/11/19 3:04 PM, Peter Beckman wrote: "with the intent to defraud, cause harm, or wrongfully obtain anything of value" Kind of a huge hole that, unless you record all calls which opens other liability, is hard to prove. Be

Re: 44/8

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Timmins
And after 75 messages, nobody has asked the obvious question. When is ARDC going to acquire IPv6 resources on our behalf? Instead being all worried about legacy resources we're highly underutilizing. Ham Radio is supposed to be about pushing the art forward. Let's do that. -KC8QAY On 7/22/19

Re: BGP Enabled transit in Chicago (River North) and equipment recommendation

2019-09-04 Thread Paul Timmins
They are obviously not running full tables on their 3640. I'd imagine a raspberry pi would have more BGP capability and throughput than a 3640, though I don't recommend doing that even as a joke. But an ERR would be fine if they're expecting nothing more than a slightly faster 3640 with maybe s

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-19 Thread Paul Timmins
On 12/19/19 6:11 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: They should be fining the telcos, they're making a lot of money on these calls. And if you believe otherwise (e.g., that it's like email spam) you've been duped by telco PR. Unlike spam when was the last time a telco failed to bill you for a billabl

Re: FCC proposes $10 Million fine for spoofed robocalls

2019-12-20 Thread Paul Timmins
On 12/20/19 9:00 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: I can't imagine many telcos are making a lot of money from voice anymore. We are. Not as much as the olden days, but we are. And a lot of companies charge surcharges to customers who have tons of short duration calls. Do the math on why, and who they'r

Re: Cleveland/Cincinnati Co-location

2019-01-02 Thread Paul Timmins
Everstream has a pretty vast network in Ohio. Worth looking into. > On Dec 31, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Mitchell Lewis wrote: > > Good Evening All, > I am working on project that may involve building points of presence in > Cleveland & Cincinnati. Any suggestions as to which colocation facility in >

Re: Zayo zColo Xcon Pricing

2018-03-07 Thread Paul Timmins
Those days are alive and well. And of course, it hasn't improved any. On 03/07/2018 12:25 PM, chris wrote: reminds me of the days when you were forced to colo gear in the phone company's CO to get access to their cable plant and got gouged on power and the interconnection between the CO and the

Re: [VoiceOps] (cross post) VoIP heat charts...

2014-01-13 Thread Paul Timmins
On Jan 9, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > - Original Message - >> >> >> Looking to "heat chart" where fraudelent calls are going. > > So you want to be able to feed "NPANXX Count" to something that will map > the call counts on a US map. > > You have anything that does NPANXX

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-29 Thread Paul Timmins
David Conrad wrote: On Apr 28, 2010, at 2:38 PM, Carl Rosevear wrote: I don't understand why anyone thinks NAT should be a fundamental part of the v6 internet Perhaps the ability to change service providers without having to renumber? Number your internal network on ULA, and put public

Re: the alleged evils of NAT, was Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Timmins
David Conrad wrote: Paul, On Apr 29, 2010, at 8:29 AM, Paul Timmins wrote: If you change ISPs, send out an RA with the new addresses, wait a bit, then send out an RA with lifetime 0 on the old address. Even if this works (and I know a lot of applications that use the socket() API

Re: POE switches and lightning

2010-05-13 Thread Paul Timmins
Caleb Tennis wrote: We had a lightning strike nearby yesterday that looks to have come inside our facility via a feeder circuit that goes outdoors underground to our facility's gate. What's interesting is that various POE switches throughout the entire building seemed to be affected in that s

Re: ipv6 transit over tunneled connection

2010-05-14 Thread Paul Timmins
GBLX was great with native IPv6 setup. VZB was nearly impossible to get them to set it up, and I'm tunneled to a router halfway across the country. The router I was going to had serious PMTU issues that they recently cleared up, so now it's working satisfactorily. -Paul Brielle Bruns wrote:

Re: Off-Topic: use laptop only as USB power supply

2010-05-20 Thread Paul Timmins
I think the last dell business notebook I had my hands on has a bios setting that enables usb power when the laptop is off and plugged into the AC adapter. It's not on by default. If you have one, you may want to check. -Paul Matthias Flittner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash:

Re: Todd Underwood was a little late

2010-06-17 Thread Paul Timmins
Hah, given the number of times people I have worked with have said "oh, I'll just use apnic space if we run out of IPs, i don't need to talk to them anyway", I think it's humorous that someone in China felt the same way about ARIN space. :) -Paul On 06/16/2010 09:01 PM, Jon Lewis wrote: I jus

Re: Where to buy Internet IP addresses

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Timmins
Sorry for the top post, but as a crazy thought here, why not throw out an RA, and if answered, go into transparent bridge mode? Let the sophisticated users who want routed behavior override it manually. Jack Bates wrote: Joe Greco wrote: Now, the question is, if you're sending all these prefi

Re: Cogent input

2009-06-11 Thread Paul Timmins
I hope at least some SPs make this commitment back in the states. I can't find any tier-1s that can provide us with native v6. Our tier-1 upstream has a best effort test program in place that uses ipv6ip tunnels. The other upstream says that they aren't making any public IPv6 plans yet.

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Paul Timmins
Fred Baker wrote: On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote: What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be going forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a number of years to come. Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Paul Timmins
Leo Bicknell wrote: If you have to reach someone 20km from the CO, the cost of running the ditch-wich down the road in a rural area is not the dominate cost over the next 20 years. It's equipment. If the copper plant takes 4 repeaters to do the job, that's 4 bits of equipment that can fail, and

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Timmins
You too, huh? On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 10:05 -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: > > > traceroute6 to the ISC's v6 allocation(s) for f-root ... (from inside > > 701) oh, not working... > > traceroute6 to ipv6.google.com from inside 701, oh... not working e

Re: IPv6 routing /48s

2008-11-18 Thread Paul Timmins
6 packet too big somehow, so the packet just disappears into thin air. -Paul On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 13:48 -1000, Antonio Querubin wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Paul Timmins wrote: > > > You too, huh? > > Is your IPv6 tunnel with vzb using GRE or 6-in-4 encapsulation? > > Antonio Querubin > whois: AQ7-ARIN

Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space

2009-02-03 Thread Paul Timmins
Zaid Ali wrote: I don't consider IPv6 a popularity contest. It's about the motivation and the willingness to. Technical issues can be resolved if you and people around you are motivated to do so. I think there are some hard facts that need to be addressed when it comes to IPv6. Facts like 1. How

Re: v6 & DSL / Cable modems [was: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space (IPv6-MW)]

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Timmins
John Schnizlein wrote: On 2009Feb4, at 8:56 PM, TJ wrote: However, many do not "have" DHCPv6 ... WinXP, MacOS, etc. are not capable. Maybe upgrades, service packs and updates will make them capable of using DHCPv6 for useful functions such as finding the address of an available name serve

Re: Breaking the internet (hotels, guestnet style)

2009-12-07 Thread Paul Timmins
Jared Mauch wrote: The University of Michigan Hospitals have a guestnet wireless that is ghetto and blocks IMAP over SSL. Attempts to get them to correct this have fallen on deaf ears. I can't even VPN out to work around the sillyness, which typically works in other hotel/guestnet scenarios.

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-31 Thread Paul Timmins
Barry Shein wrote: The obvious change RIRs could make would be to make sure the contracts they allocate resources under give them the latitude to cancel those contracts if certain boundaries of behavior are breached. YES I REALIZE EASIER SAID THAN DONE. But just as allocation of resources is no

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-13 Thread Paul Timmins
Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 17:14, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 2:05 AM, Stefan Fouant wrote: I for one would be really happy to see them follow through with this. I was very disappointed when they agreed to censor search results, although I can unde

Re: Idiotic Newstar Networking Equipment Sales Droid

2010-01-20 Thread Paul Timmins
Scott Weeks wrote: If they see all of us saying we won't buy from them when they do idiotic things like spamming nanog folks (I can't think of too many groups it world be worse to spam... ;-) they will realize that doing this will not only not generate sales, it will actually prevent future s

Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Timmins
John R. Levine wrote: I have told a hotel they need to install equipment that supports RA guard as I've checked out. This was a hotel that only offered IPv4. Hotels ask for feedback on their services. If you see a fault report it in writing. Sure. Bet you ten bucks that no hotel in North Am

Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Timmins
Matthew Kaufman wrote: On 2/5/2011 8:15 PM, Paul Timmins wrote: OR just upgrade your gear, and while you're at it, you can now safely enable IPv6 anyway. Well, enable IPv6. Safely? I don't see how upgrading your gear magically makes the various security threats -- including t

Re: Random Port Blocking at Hotels (was: Re: quietly....)

2011-02-05 Thread Paul Timmins
Derek J. Balling wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:15 PM, Paul Timmins wrote: I know a hospital in Metro Detroit that was offering it on their patient and guest WiFi in 2009. Of course, neither they, nor the individual running the rogue IPv6 router knew that, but as a person running an IPv6

Re: What's really needed is a routing slot market

2011-02-08 Thread Paul Timmins
On 02/08/2011 11:01 AM, Neil Harris wrote: They did indeed, but they did it by centrally precomputing and then downloading centrally-built routing tables to each exchange, with added statically-configured routing between telco provider domains, and then doing step-by-step call setup, with add

Re: CSI New York fake IPv6

2011-03-20 Thread Paul Timmins
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Is 127.0.0.1 / ::1 the Internet version of "555"? Or will "I hurt myself, so now I'm going to sue you" mean we can't even use that? It'd be nice if TV producers even knew that not all of 555 was to be used for television shows*, let alone that there's an internet

Re: Had an idea - looking for a math buff to tell me if it's possible?with today's technology.

2011-05-20 Thread Paul Timmins
On 05/20/2011 03:34 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 05/20/2011 08:53 AM, Brett Frankenberger wrote: Even if those problems were solved, you'd need (on average) just as many bits to represent which digit of pi to start with as you'd need to represent the original message. -- Brett Not quite sur

Re: Netflix Is Eating Up More Of North America's Bandwidth Than Any Other Company

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Timmins
On 05/24/2011 11:12 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Lou Katz wrote: An "elegant" idea, done in by changing technology. *sigh* As USENIX director I sponsored and sheparded this project, called "Stargate". We at least got bits into the blanking in