Expanding the area, Humboldt and Mendocino County sheriffs are reporting
damage to a fiber-optic line has cut-off communications for parts of those
counties. They are using amateur ham radio operators at hospitals and
sheriff station for communications.
AT&T and Verizon have confirmed teleco
From Califonira Office of Emergency Services
77 cellular-services sites were damaged or out of service (35 repaired)
A key cellular hub was damaged (location not provided)
From Comcast
38,000 subscribers out of service
Xfinity WiFi hotspots are available for free in the area until Friday
P
This is an op-ed, but most California internet folks know about recurring
outages for a decade on this fiber route. What was unusual is the local
governments eventually used public funds to help pay for an east-west
alternate fiber route.
Instead of leasing capacity on alternate routes, the
Has anyone heard if the smart speaker companies (Amazon Echo, Google Home)
plan to include emergency alert capability? An estimate 10% of households
own a smart speaker, and Gartner (well-known for its forecasting
accuracy) predicts 75% of US households will have a smart speaker by 2020.
Al
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017, Jared Mauch wrote:
I’m quite surprised they didn’t send out a local emergency alert. I’ve
gotten these for Tornadoes and amber alerts. Wildfires would be
comparable to a Tornado IMO.
Like most news stories, its a little more complicated.
Napa, Sonoma sent an evacuation al
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 13 Oct 2017 18:50:51 -0700, Joe Hamelin said:
I would think that Amazon knows where my Echo is since it's the same IP
that I order (way too much crap) from.
It knows the usual delivery address. That's not necessarily the same thing.
On Sun, 15 Oct 2017, Peter Beckman wrote:
It is theoretically simple to:
1. Turn the address of your Smart Speaker into coordinates
2. Receive ALL alerts and only act upon those that apply to your
location
This way it isn't creepy, because the emergency alert wasn't targeted to
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Aaron C. de Bruyn wrote:
Simple programming problem.
Speaker: "There is a tornado warning in this area, would you like to hear more?"
User: "How did you get my phone number?"
Speaker: "You have opted out of tornado warnings"
Fast forward to the next tornado and techno-dar
On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Mike wrote:
'presidential alerts'. From what I see, this is really wrong. Yes I would
like there to be a broadcast capability with some kind of gps fencing. No, I
am not the police nor will I do their job and be their eyes and ears. Yes, I
want to know if there is a major f
On October 18, 2017, the Puerto Rican Telecommunications Alliance warned
the lack of utility power in the main telecommunications centers (Metro
office park, Caparra and San Patricio) may not be sustainable soon.
Although the telecommunication facilities are using generators, they are
not int
Its too early for an after-action review. Nevertheless, this report by the
Miami Herald is the best summary to date of the aftermath in Puerto Rico.
Its solid journalism, covers the wide-span of the destruction, and gives
credit and blame based on documented evidence.
Its longer than a typica
While some of the big companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft got
some press about their wireless experiments during the post-hurricane
recovery, the FCC hasn't heard about the experience of wireless ISPs
during the recovery.
Were there any wireless ISPs in south-Texas, south-Florida,
November 30 is the official end of hurricane season in North America.
Puerto Rico's Internet routing announcements are 95% of pre-Maria levels.
US Virgin Islands Internet routing announcements are 80% of pre-Maria
levels.
The #(provider name)sucks tweets on twitter in South Florida and South
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU SEEKS COMMENT ON
RESPONSE EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN DURING 2017 HURRICANE SEASON
PS Docket No. 17-344
Comments Due: January 22, 2018
Reply Comments Due: February 21, 2018
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-comment-2017-hurricane-season-response-efforts
A.
The U.S. Copyright Office has been moving DMCA registration from paper
forms to an online registration system. All previously filed paper DMCA
agent registration forms expire on December 31, 2017.
U.S. ISPs and non-US ISPs doing business in the United States should have
re-registered using t
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-18-198
FCC Should Improve Monitoring of Industry Efforts to Strengthen Wireless
Network Resiliency
What GAO Found
The number of wireless outages attributed to a physical incident—a natural
disaster, accident, or other manmade event, such as vandalism—increased
Just a reminder, the Federal Communications Committee is still collecting
comments on the 2017 hurricane season.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-1180A1.pdf
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU SEEKS COMMENT ON
RESPONSE EFFORTS UNDERTAKEN DURING 2017 HURRICANE SEASON
There are 10 days left to submit comments to the FCC about the 2017
hurricane season and response/recovery efforts -- Due Feburary 21, 2018.
http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2017/db1211/DA-17-1180A1.pdf
So far, 56 comments and reply comments have been filed in proceeding
An explosion and large fire at a power substation has caused a blackout in
northern Puerto Rico.
Before this latest damage, Puerto Rico had recovered about 84% of its
pre-hurricane electric grid distribution capacity.
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On Thu, 25 Jan 2018, Sean Donelan wrote:
Just a reminder, the Federal Communications Committee is still collecting
comments on the 2017 hurricane season.
https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-17-1180A1.pdf
PUBLIC SAFETY AND HOMELAND SECURITY BUREAU SEEKS COMMENT ON
On Friday, April 13th, 2018, the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC
or Commission) Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (Bureau) will
host a public workshop to identify communications information needs of
government and consumers to improve preparation and response efforts
during
In the U.S. disaster response system, the primary responsbility for
disaster response falls on state (territory) and local governments. In
theory, the federal government response is supposed to be secondary.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/15/puerto-rico-hurricane-fema-disaster-523033
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Brandon Kim wrote:
1) How necessary do you believe in local NTP servers? Do you really
need the logs to be perfectly accurate?
2) If you do have a local NTP server, is it only for local internal
use, or do you provide this NTP server to your clients as an added
service?
3)
On Mon, 25 Oct 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote:>
On Oct 25, 2010, at 3:48 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
NTP can potentially be used as a DoS vector by your upstream clocks,
if you're not running your own.
+1
Also, if you experience a network partition event for any reason (DDoS
attack, backhoe attack
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Cutler James R wrote:
In my experience, a reliable NTP peer group can be implemented on the
same set of boxes as DNS (bind, etc.) with little or no impact on DNS
performance. If you can count to four or more, you can make a reliable
peer group of time servers.
There are l
On Sun, 24 Oct 2010, Brandon Kim wrote:
By local I meant in-house, on-site in our datacenter.
What do you think it means to have a NTP server in-house, on-site in your
datacenter? There all many different levels of NTP servers.
Putting some free software on a spare computer, and synchronizi
While the answer is always it depends, I was wondering what the current
rules of thumb university network engineers are using for capacity
planning and oversubscription for resnets and admin networks?
For K-12, SETDA (http://www.setda.org/web/guest/2020/broadband) is
recommending:
- An exter
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Curtis, Bruce wrote:
If we take our current ISP bandwidth and increase it by 50% every
year for 5 years it would be about twice the 100 Mbps per 1,000
students/staff recommendation.
Is 50% growth each year typical these days? In the dot-com boom days,
people said 100% g
On Sat, 13 Nov 2010, Christopher Morrow wrote:
as per usual, vzb's website is a poor excuse for a marketting tool (or
sales tool, or information gathering tool.. ugh) but, bullet #2 is one
option (that register.com I think actually was offered at one point in
time...)
is 3250/month cheaper than
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Bret Clark wrote:
Okay's let's say L3 gives in to Comcast and pays them. L3 then turns around
and charges us (providers) more to cover the additional money they have to
pay Comcast now.
Why don't you, and other providers, demand L3 give you the same
settlement-free peerin
On Tue, 30 Nov 2010, Bret Clark wrote:
Or why don't you build a network to places that Comcast peers at; and
bypass L3 completely and negotiate a peering relationship directly with
Comcast?
We tried Comcast wouldn't peer with us because they considered us a
compeititor.
Seriously this has n
February 2000 weren't the first DDOS attacks, but the attacks on multiple
well-known sites did raise DDOS' visibility.
What progress has been made during the last decade at stopping DDOS
attacks?
SMURF attacks creating a DDOS from directed broadcast replies seems to
have been mostly mitiga
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
But as you and others have pointed out, not a lot of defense against
DDoS these days besides horsepower and anycast. :-)
Not just anycast. I said distributed architecture. There are more
ways to distribute than anycast.
The content-side can be
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
At the time I wondered if anything near the IX's in that area might be
impacted,
Although any Internet Exchange Facility can have bad luck (i.e. remember
the Ashburn data center damaged by a hurricane/tornado in 2004), most of
the major IX's in the US ar
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Leigh Porter wrote:
Indeed, we are not going to be building earthquake proof buildings in
London for example.
Of course there is no such thing as earthquake proof. The Earth is still
a single point of failure :-)
Essential facilty design usally takes the "standard" desi
On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Roy wrote:
Many years ago I was taught that "earthquake proof" means the building
doesn't kill the occupants and not that the structure survives unscathed..
As examples, they used a hospital that was damaged in the magnitude 6.6
Sylmar quake of 1971 The building was basica
On Sat, 27 Aug 2011, Kauto Huopio wrote:
Interesting, Con Edison planning preemptive power outages..including
financial district..
http://www.wnyc.org/blogs/wnyc-news-blog/2011/aug/27/con-ed-braces-hurricane-irene/
A mis-interpretation of "what-if" plans. A shutdown in the area would
occur o
On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, Mike wrote:
Honestly, I could care less about customer virus infections. I am not going
to do anything with the information and am likely to ignore future
occurrences from the fbi if this is all they got.
Each ISP will makes its own business decision what they want to do.
On Sat, 18 Feb 2012, Paul Graydon wrote:
Yes I'm serious, they were CCNP qualified, hired as a NOC engineer for an ISP
& Hosting company. For the company the NOC team was the top tier of customer
The CCNP was a success from the point of view of the person. It got the
person hired by an ISP &
The power of defaults.
The few successful Internet security "best practice" changes have
primarily resulted from changes to default settings, not trying to get
ISPs, operators, sysadmins or users to change.
Smurf attacks - change default directed-broadcast settings in dominant
router vendor
Probably not as interesting as talking about Amazon/Netflix.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/after-storm-911-phone-service-remains-spotty/2012/07/02/gJQA33dHJW_story.html
Fairfax County's 911 emergency center operated at just half capacity
Monday as Verizon struggled to figure out why bot
On Tue, 22 Jul 2014, Nolan Rollo wrote:
I've been trying to decide for a while what makes a good home for a
Network Admin... access to physical, reliable upstream routes? good
selection of local taverns? What, in your opinion, makes a good location
for a Network Admin and where in the US would
On Sat, 26 Jul 2014, Scott Weeks wrote:
"Annual Mean Wage of Network and Computer Systems
Administrators by State, May 2013"
is surprising, though. The numbers are much lower than
I would expect.
As always, the survey definitions (and footnotes) are important. The
survey shows the relative
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Glen Kent wrote:
bets are off on whether it will get dropped or not. However, the key point
is that the core usually does not drop too many packets - the probability
of drops are highest in the access side.
Is this correct?
1. TCP (and most other IP protocols) depends on,
As the saying goes, cloud computing is just someone else's computer.
Always backup your cloud backups... in your backup.
Google's spokesperson used the percentage statistic to avoid how
much data was lost. Other cloud providers have also lost customer
data due to various problems. While a we
On Thu, 17 Sep 2015, Joe Abley wrote:
Is anybody here aware of a complete or partial archive of root zone data that
is older than the set available at DNS-OARC? OARC's archive has nothing older
than July 2009.
I covered most of the root changes up to 2002 on a DNS timeline.
http://www.donelan
The FCC voted to propose new rules requiring submarine cable licensees
to report outages to the FCC.
While submarine cable outages have always been very noticable, and
operators on this list and other forums quickly knew about any outage,
they weren't required to be reported to the FCC in the pas
On Mon, 21 Sep 2015, Christopher Morrow wrote:
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Rod Beck wrote:
Academics face a severe challenge in gaining access to fiber maps since the
industry classifies virtually everything as proprietary. If you know a better
paper, please post it.
I don't, which was
On Fri, 9 Oct 2015, Christopher Morrow wrote:
fairly certian that nothing ip-echelon sends is ever valid...
or there's enough 'clearly you are joking' mail from them that anyone
who ends up in court for 'ip echelon violations' could simply subpeona
their isp for 'other complaints from ip echelon'
Hey!
New message, please read <http://www.socialite.agency/family.php?nz83p>
Sean Donelan
Since the weekend's list problems seem to have died down. How about some
infrastructure news.
http://spacenews.com/from-russia-some-unofficial-assurance-about-lurking-luch-satellites-intent/
From Russia, Unofficial Assurance about Intent of Lurking Luch Satellite
http://www.nytimes.com/20
disruptions.
On Mon, 26 Oct 2015, Sean Donelan wrote:
Since the weekend's list problems seem to have died down. How about some
infrastructure news.
http://spacenews.com/from-russia-some-unofficial-assurance-about-lurking-luch-satellites-intent/
From Russia, Unofficial Assurance about Inte
On Tue, 19 Jan 2016, Owen DeLong wrote:
Correct me if I’m wrong, but these FO vandalisms have been going on in the bay
area since before the stadium
was even funded.
This leads me to believe that this is just another example of an LE landgrab.
Or a media site generating click bait.
Before si
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, c b wrote:
Is this a common SOP nowadays? Anyone care to explain why they wouldn't just
provide it ahead of time?
Carrier saves costs by not having a clue, and has no idea which router
will have an open port until they try to plug you in.
Hope its not a long contract, bec
If you've wondered why the U.S. Government has so many data centers, ok I
know no one has ever asked.
The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center, which
ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a data center.
If you call every room with even one server a
On Sat, 12 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins wrote:
The U.S. Government has an odd defintion of what is a data center, which
ends up with a lot of things no rational person would call a data center.
There's also a case to be made that governmental organizations really
oughtn't to have servers just lyin
On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Christopher Morrow wrote:
o 'a machine under your desk' is not a production operation.
(if you think it is, please stop, think again and move that
service to conditioned power/cooling/ethernet)
Even worse, the new OMB data center definition wants says "(whether in a
p
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Roland Dobbins wrote:
On 13 Mar 2016, at 3:03, George Herbert wrote:
It's a symptom of trying to save a few cents at the risk of dollars.
Concur 100%.
Not to mention the related security issues.
Just remember, no exceptions, no waivers.
I understand why cloud vendors
On Sun, 13 Mar 2016, Lee wrote:
Where does it say test/dev has to be done solely in a cloud data
center? This bit
For the purposes of this memorandum, rooms with at least one
server, providing
services (whether in a production, test, stage, development, or any other
environment), are consi
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Lee wrote:
I doubt anyone really believes that having a server in the room makes
it a data center. But if you're the Federal CIO pushing the cloud
first policy, this seems like a great bureaucratic maneuver to get the
decision making away from the techies that like redundant
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, George Metz wrote:
That's an inaccurate cost savings though most likely; it probably doesn't
Politicians and sales people with inaccurate cost savings. Say it isn't
so.
If you think these are $100 million dollar "data centers," maybe a few
billion dollars in cost savin
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, Scott Weeks wrote:
It's all phunny money. Real economics are not even considered.
At all.
And what makes your think the Data Center Optimization Initiative is any
different, when they are counting single servers instead of data centers?
If it was a rational, coherent pl
The FBI CALEA folks have always had a somewhat expansive interpretation of
their authorities.
For example, "dialed digit extraction." The court cases supporting pen
registers are based on business record exception, i.e. Smith v. Maryland
says dial numbers are disclosed to the telephone compan
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
But when some Armenian script kiddie DDoSing Netflix takes down your TSA
terrorist lookup service, and you come to me asking why the plane blew up,
I'm going to tell you "because you fucking ignored my written advice on
the matter", while I'm packing my
On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, George Herbert wrote:
Come on, the audit requirements should have diversity/redundancy concerns in
them.
That's standard in all the audits I have done or participated in.
If these ones don't I have a marketing opportunity to teach a HA seminar and
followon consulting to t
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
My question for the group -- does anyone know if there's a "best practices"
for sending maint notifications like this? An RFC sort of thing?
It falls in the category of "Doctor, it hurts when I do this. Don't do
that." Even the most dense
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote:
I imagine some consumers of the data will 'correct' the position to fall on
the nearest road in front of the nearest house.
If GeoIP insists on giving a specific lon/lat, instead of an uncertaintity
how about using locations such as the followign as t
Guess what, an IG decides to count "data centers" using OMB's definition
of a data center. CIO points out those "data centers" won't save money.
https://fcw.com/articles/2016/04/11/lyngaas-halvorsen-update.aspx
The IG report knocked Halvorsen for not adjusting his strategy to account
for a re
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Livingood, Jason wrote:
I have not yet read all of the 147 pages of the FCC Privacy NPRM -
https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-releases-proposed-rules-protect-broadband-
consumer-privacy. But it may be worth noting, especially for this
audience, that the FCC proposes considering
On Tue, 3 Mar 2015, Jay Hennigan wrote:
Well you'll need to translate those into addresses. That should be easy
with Google or Bing.
We have the addresses, need census tract and block.
For small address batches you can use the Census Geocoder. The
documentation is at
http://www.census.go
ARIN has the early archives from its predecessors, i.e SRI-NIC. I think
some documents may still be paper, so there may be some gaps.
Contact hostmas...@arin.net registration services, and provide as
much detail as possible so they can check their archives.
You can also check the RFCs "Assign
On Fri, 5 Jun 2015, Blake Hudson wrote:
The fire marshal that regularly inspects our building will cite us if he sees
an extension cord in use - even temporarily - or sees a temporary power
tap/surge suppressor connected to another. Meanwhile, in another city, I see
government and commercial bu
On Mon, 6 Jul 2015, Joe Greco wrote:
Anyways, if you look on the first page of "Customize settings", yes
there's an option for "Automatically connect to networks shared by my
contacts" and it CAN be turned off, but it defaults to on.
Defaults matter. Every configuration parameter has a default
On Thu, 30 Jul 2015, Keith Stokes wrote:
1. Is it really accurate that the customer’s address is tied to the
modem/router?
AT&T calls it "Sticky IP address." A U-Verse Residential Gateway tends
to get the same IP address from DHCP, for months or years, but its not
guaranteed. An subnet may c
Non-work, work related information. Many NANOG geeks might be interested
in this video tour of the Quakecon NOC tour. As any ISP operator knows,
gamers complain faster about problems than any NMS, so you've got to
admire the bravery of any NOC in the middle of a gaming convention floor.
What P
On Sun, 2 Aug 2015, Niels Bakker wrote:
Also, 2 Gbps for 4,400 people? Pretty lackluster compared to European
events. 30C3 had 100 Gbps to the conference building. And no NAT: every
host got real IP addresses (IPv4 + IPv6).
Quakecon is essentially a giant LAN party. Bring Your Own Computer
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015, Christopher Morrow wrote:
bufferbloat is the boogieman... of late. I think that's foolish :(
I think this comment from jtk is really on point though! 'why only
then?' that sure seems convenient, eh?
Failures almost never have a single cause.
Transport networks are never per
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, Nick Khamis wrote:
We are however trying to conform to RFC standards as pointed out by
Jev. You guys really need to look at this. It's easily implementable:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1149
That remind me I need to finish my April 1 submission to the RFC editor
for next
Researchers have complained for years about the lack of good
statistics about the internet for a couple fo decades, since the
end of NSFNET statistics.
What are the current estimates about the size of the Internet, all IP
networks including managed IP and private IP, and all telecommunications
i
I should have remembered, NANOG prefers to correct things. So here are
several estimates about how much IP/Internet traffic is downloaded
in a month. Does anyone have better numbers, or better souces of
numbers that can be shared?
Arbor/Merit/Michigan Internet Observatory: 9,000 PB/month (2009
On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
It is actually even harder than the above illustrates. Most people
define "Mbps on the Internet" as inter-AS bits. But then what about
Akamai AANP nodes, Google GGC nodes, Netflix Open Connect nodes, etc.?
They are all inside the AS. Given that Aka
On Thu, 15 Aug 2013, Seth Mattinen wrote:
We'll also need this data in units of number of Libraries of Congress.
The researchers at the Library of Congress are more than happy to explain
why you are wrong to attempt to use the Library of Congress as a unit of
measure, and why the estimates be
On Fri, 16 Aug 2013, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 12:37:20AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
Even the researchers at the Library of Congress, if you give them
enough beer and beg them enough, will eventually give you an estimate
about the Library collection size as of
Thanks for all the comments. Through the entire thread on-line and
off-line only one person contributed an estimate
Patrick Gilmore said:
All that said: My back-of-the-envelope math says the Internet is order
of 1 exabyte/day, as defined by my own rules on what counts as "the
Internet"[
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, Jim Popovitch wrote:
I'm just trying to get a complete (not constantly changing) list of
bogons.
Eventually all the reserved for future allocation blocks will be
allocated for use, and will no longer be "bogons."
That is independent of which blocks are routed or routabl
On Tue, 29 May 2007, Matthew Black wrote:
What would you do if a major US computer security firm
attempted to hack your site's servers and networks?
Would you tell the company or let their experts figure
it out?
Contact your internal security and legal folks. Sometimes in large
organizations
On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, John Levine wrote:
Also, ISPs in the United States are not common carriers. Even the
ISPs that are owned by phone companies (which are common carriers for
their phone service) are not common carriers.
The Communications Decency Act, Digitial Millinium Copyright Act,
Elec
On Wed, 14 Jun 2007, John Levine wrote:
But ISPs are not wholly without responsibility. If one of your
customers reloaded Windows from CD and then needed to download all of
the patches, do you provide a way for them to do it without getting
re-wormed before the download is done?
Windows patch
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jack Bates wrote:
May I recommend developing an in house method for allowing the customer only
access to your servers (web, dns, proxy, etc), and then apply filters for
everything else except for tcp/80. If you wanted to be additionally paranoid,
you could even allow only
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:
You want to have a look at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/wsus/
Which is used in large organizations to deploy patches with ease.
Requires some AD mumbojumbo of course.
Really the information is out there, google knows, so can you :)
Read the Mi
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote:
For that matter, why don't ISPs start doing that: Introduce a fine. When
somebody gets infected, and thus doesn't take good care of his/her/it's
computer fine them. Let them pay say $25 to get fully back on the
Internet and only allow a very slow rate of
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
On 6/18/07, Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Of course, though 25 is (afaik ;) the most abused one that will annoy a
lot of other folks with spam, phishings and virus distribution, though
the latter seems to have come to a near halt fro
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
The best answer is probably paying for a strong ISP abuse team. But for
whatever reasons, some ISPs prefer to invest in other areas.
Bah. Not to underrate having a strong and clued abuse team. However,
throwing more people at this is a non st
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Jack Bates wrote:
This sounds great, except it doesn't scale. My router says there is no
noticeable difference between tcp/25 and tcp/445, or udp/134 or udp/1434 or
tcp/1025, or tcp/80. It asked if we should just block all ports and force
people through proxy servers. Why
On Fri, 6 Jul 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
I wonder if they did a proof of concept at all, or if they just read
the glossies..
Surely you jest? they, of course, did a full scale mock up on their E1
connected lab in belgium. Perish the thought that they may have attempted
anything less. Best of
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
I put up a diary at the Storm Center
(http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=3112) that summarizes what we
know about the Yahoo outage on Friday. If anybody has any additional
info they want to share or comments about the write-up please let me
know
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Any clue about the root cause, i.e., malice or accident?
Does it matter? You are screwed either way.
It tells us what we need to do to prevent such things from happening in
the future. For example, most misconfigurations could be blocked if
all
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote:
While S*BGP seem like they may offer additional protections and additional
knobs to be used for protecting 'us' from 'them', the very basics are
obviously not being done so added complexity is not going to really help
:( Or, perhaps its not that its not
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Randy Bush wrote:
the space of routing data validation is large, we can explore it at our
leisure, and we have been for some years. but my point was that it is
silly to indulge in conjecturbation on the cause of the recent event and
excoriate l(3), hanaro, or john curran's
On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Brandon Butterworth wrote:
Wouldn't residential fiber be
expected to radiate out from neighborhood break-out boxes, or at the
longest from a central office in the middle of town, rather than having
some central point where enough individual strands of fiber converged to
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