RFC 2468

2020-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
It is especially fitting whenever the NANOG/ARIN joint meetings occur in the same week that we “remember IANA”. As time has gone on, fewer and fewer of us actually know who J. Postel is - that name that appears at the end of so many RFC’s we refer to every day. The same person who also guided t

Re: Nashville

2020-12-25 Thread Rodney Joffe
It seems to be here: https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1645601,-86.7768622,3a,60y,145.84h,88.19t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sqJHVrYi75RWSsuTlBGAg6g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Here’s a link to a photo on Politico that matches: Note: Hooters sign on left. > On Dec 25, 2020, at 2:33 PM, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > >

Re: Nashville

2020-12-25 Thread Rodney Joffe
Politico photo seems to have been filtered or dropped. 2nd Attempt: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/25/explosion-downtown-nashville-450448 > On Dec 25, 2020, at 2:42 PM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > It seems to be here: > > https://www.google.com/maps/@36.1645601,-86.7768622

Shining a light on ambulance chasers - Noction

2020-03-25 Thread Rodney Joffe
Under the heading of sales spam from our community that is in even poorer taste, and sucks: Begin forwarded message: > From: Josh Ankin > Subject: BGP Management > Date: March 25, 2020 at 3:39:02 PM EDT > To: rjo...@centergate.com > Reply-To: jan...@noction.com > > Hello Rodney, > > I know

Its hard to believe that it has been 21 years...

2019-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Twenty-one years ago today, Jon Postel passed away in Santa Monica, CA. Almost all of us get to do what we do today, because of his vision, guidance, and leadership. He is one of many giants on whose shoulders we stand today (some are still active here in NANOG), but he was the compass that guid

18 years ago today - rfc 2468

2016-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
How time flies

Re: 18 years ago today - rfc 2468

2016-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
To be clear - Oct 16. Which has just tolled in the APAC region. For most of you it will be tomorrow. But no matter. You get the point. > On Oct 15, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > > How time flies

Re: ICANN GDPR lawsuit

2018-06-03 Thread Rodney Joffe
> On Jun 1, 2018, at 10:21 AM, niels=na...@bakker.net wrote: > > * l...@satchell.net (Stephen Satchell) [Fri 01 Jun 2018, 14:51 CEST]: >> How does your shop, Niels, go about making contact with an operator that is >> hijacking one of your netblocks, or is doing something weird with routing >>

Re: What are people using for IPAM these days?

2018-06-12 Thread Rodney Joffe
> On Jun 12, 2018, at 8:36 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > On 06/12/2018 08:26 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: >>> emacs! >> vim! > ed! TECO! >>> cat >> IBM 029. > > Youngster. IBM 026. Infants! Hollerith (IBM Type 1). I still own it.

Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-03 Thread Rodney Joffe
Weirdly, I received 3. One of them is both French/English. More weirdly i am in the air, on the way from Nanog Vancouver to Denver. We were still in Canada airspace, and my AT&T phone showed clearly “no service”. The phone was NOT on wi-fi. Screen captures if anyone wants. > On Oct 3, 2018, at

It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

2018-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
At NANOG two weeks ago, we had an interesting discussion at one of the lunch tables. One of the subjects we discussed was the original IANA, and RFC Editor, Jon Postel. Seven of the ten people at the table had never heard of him. Maybe these days it no longer matters who he was, and what he mea

Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
It seems that more than just a few of us were spammed by Glenn Stern (gst...@calient.net), an employee of Calient following NANOG 70. The spammer had the balls to say, in his email: > > We do not know each other. I'm leveraging the attendee list for NANOG to > reach out and raise awareness of

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
a senior citizen, at the end of my tech days, with enable grudgingly given up, I guess I could turn away and say "not my problem, really". YMMV. > > -mel beckman > >> On Jun 13, 2017, at 6:00 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: >> >> It seems that more than just a fe

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-13 Thread Rodney Joffe
I have no doubt that rogue salesmen from my companies over the years have tried it once. When I find out about it, I do kick butts. I'm hoping that this discussion is enough to get Calient to rethink their strategy. For crying out loud, the guy is a VP in their company. What kind of e

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-14 Thread Rodney Joffe
> On Jun 13, 2017, at 10:28 PM, Mel Beckman wrote: > > But as I said, harvesting emails is not illegal under can spam. And the > requirement to not send you UCE to harvested emails is pointless, because how > do you prove that someone did that? > Because he said so? The spammer had the

Re: Vendors spamming NANOG attendees

2017-06-14 Thread Rodney Joffe
I guess that explains why so many newcomers are confused about what spam is. > On Jun 14, 2017, at 5:33 AM, Ge Dupin wrote: > > It looks like there are more spams coming from these discussions than from > the original Scams/Spams.. > Ge > >>> Le 14 juin 2017 à 1

19 years ago today (Oct 16th, 1998) we lost our guide - Jon Postel - RFC2468

2017-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
To us greaybeards, it feels like just yesterday. And as Randy points out, this coming Friday we also remember Abha who passed away 16 years ago, in 2001. http://www.neebu.net/~khuon/abha/ Sigh.

12 years ago today...

2010-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
On October 16th, we lost a real friend and hero. Sigh http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html

Re: 12 years ago today...

2010-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
eyboard, please excuse my mistakes. > > On Oct 16, 2010, at 12:45 AM, "Ali S" wrote: > >> He should have been better known for his work. The intertubes will miss you >> >> Sent via mobile. >> >> On Oct 15, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote:

13 years ago today - October 16, 1998...

2011-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
we lost Jon. It feels like just yesterday. http://www.apps.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.html

GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2012-12-31 Thread Rodney Joffe
NANOG and ARIN Friends, 14 Years ago, at the suggestion of Jon Postel and some of the early participants in NANOG, we developed the GeekTools Whois proxy to make it easier for *us* - network security and abuse techs - to deal with the expanding number of gtlds and registrars and the varied whoi

Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2012-12-31 Thread Rodney Joffe
Hi David, On Dec 31, 2012, at 10:55 AM, David Conrad wrote: > Rodney, > > On Dec 31, 2012, at 7:41 AM, Rodney Joffe wrote: >> Two weeks ago RIPE-NCC, who provide the whois data for IP addresses in the >> RIPE region, informed us that based on decisions by their members,

Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2012-12-31 Thread Rodney Joffe
ant to change this. > > Kind regards, > > Job > > [1] http://www.irrd.net/ > > On Dec 31, 2012, at 4:41 PM, Rodney Joffe wrote: > >> NANOG and ARIN Friends, >> >> 14 Years ago, at the suggestion of Jon Postel and some of the early >> partici

Update: Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2012-12-31 Thread Rodney Joffe
be reached in the next 6 hours. > > In the meantime you could consider setting up an irrd[1], redirect queries to > that instance instead of whois.ripe.net, and keep it kind of fresh by feeding > it ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/ripe.db.gz on a daily basis. > > Kind regards, &g

Re: GeekTools Whois Proxy and RIPE/RIPE-NCC

2012-12-31 Thread Rodney Joffe
t; A2B Internet > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > > Op 31 dec. 2012 om 16:41 heeft Rodney Joffe het > volgende geschreven: > >> NANOG and ARIN Friends, >> >> 14 Years ago, at the suggestion of Jon Postel and some of the early >> participants in NANOG, we d

Re: RIPE Database Proxy Service Issues

2013-01-02 Thread Rodney Joffe
re was no impact. This too is appreciated. And thank you to the many community and RIPE members who offered and provided assistance and support. Thank you. Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research/GeekTools

14 years ago today....

2012-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
... we lost Jon. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt

Sigh. 16 years ago today.

2014-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt

Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

2014-12-11 Thread Rodney Joffe
Randy, You're spot on. I don't understand this griping. The flip side is that as a(n) happy xfinity customer I get to roam in lots of places around the US (and maybe even abroad), as do all of the xfinity home customers. This isn't a paid service... It's a byproduct of being a cable customer.

Re: i hate october

2015-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Though fewer and fewer of us remember them and why it sucks. Sigh. RFC2468. I can't believe I missed my midnight reminder on the list. > On Oct 16, 2015, at 7:57 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > > jon postel died this day in 1988 > abha ahuja next tuesday > itojun the 29th > > arrrgh

Re: Looking for AT&T (Wireless) to contact me off-list.

2015-03-18 Thread Rodney Joffe
On Mar 18, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Eric Sieg wrote: > Speaking as an unaffiliated, irrelevant, old-timer, but hoping to assist you and all of those who have preceded you and who will no doubt follow you, I have generally found that providing your affiliation and context sometimes helps solicit a

RFC 2468

2009-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
It's been 11 years. Sigh.

Re: remembering Jon Postel: Looking Beyond the Decade

2008-10-02 Thread Rodney Joffe
On Oct 1, 2008, at 10:49 PM, Scott Francis wrote: nice writeup by Mr. Cerf: http://www.circleid.com/posts/ 20081001_remembering_jon_postel_a_decade/ I was not fortunate enough to have known Mr. Postel, but I have developed a deep posthumous respect for the work he did from listening to what

Re: The DDOS problem & security BOF: Am i mistaken?

2008-10-15 Thread Rodney Joffe
Scott, On Oct 14, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Scott Doty wrote: First, the good news: so far, the NANOG conference has been very valuable and content-rich, covering a lot of issues that need to be discussed. For that, I am grateful. Thank you. We worked hard to make it valuable. But now, the ba

Ten years ago today.....

2008-10-16 Thread Rodney Joffe
Jon Postel left us. A vacuum still unfilled. http://www.isi.edu/div7/people/postel.home/

Re: 2 services have disappeared

2009-01-17 Thread Rodney Joffe
On Jan 17, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Henry Linneweh wrote: http://www.completewhois.com I've had http://www.geektools.com/whois.php for about 10 years. Also available on port 43. These days it is a little hobbled because of abusers, but if you're known to us we can unhobble it.

ICANN NomCom call for SOIs for Board/Leadership positions

2009-02-12 Thread Rodney Joffe
olved in guiding the direction of ICANN, rather than standing on the sidelines and complaining. More info at: http://nomcom.icann.org/ Step up. Rodney Joffe ICANN 2009 NomCom Member

Re: gTLD root nameserver anomaly

2008-08-06 Thread Rodney Joffe
Handled directly. The problem was glue records within the .com TLD for the nameserver that needed to be changed as well as the zonefile. On Aug 6, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Ross Dmochowski wrote: Something weird seems afoot in the root nameservers. I am noticing that the root nameservers are hand

Re: Silly PUCK/Outages question

2008-09-24 Thread Rodney Joffe
Perhaps you should report it to outages? ;-) On Sep 24, 2008, at 11:55 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tuc, stuck on puck wrote: I hate to use NANOG for outages... But can anyone else get to puck.nethe

Re: Katrina response, private and public

2010-01-19 Thread Rodney Joffe
On Jan 19, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I've no idea. I've just been focused on moving the "dry tank" moment to the right, along with several others. Mind, this was the first resupply, its not a stable replenishment schedule yet. The engineers on site had (as of yesterd

Re: "Cyber Shockwave" on CNN

2010-02-20 Thread Rodney Joffe
Enough hype. This was an exercise in self promotion by retired beaurocrats posturing for private gigs. The US gov publicly disassociated themselves from this. Move along. Nothing to see here. On Feb 20, 2010, at 3:13 PM, "andrew.wallace" > wrote: --- On Sat, 20/2/10, Randy Bush wrote: