Re: MTA Survey

2008-09-25 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 09:25 +0200, Colin Alston wrote: > Noel Butler wrote: > > Some of you may recall back in late 2006 we ran an international poll on > > MTA's, where over a period of several months and 12 and half thousands > > voters later, Sendmail was declared king, followed by Qmail, t

Cox DNS resolver engineers?

2008-09-25 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Anyone involved in Cox's DNS resolver engineering and maintainance: can you contact me off list to resolve some problems? Thanks! William

Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-11 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, ASPEWS is listing 216.83.32.0/20 as being associated with the whole Atrivo incident of 2008. My memory does not recall 216.83.32.0/20 being involved, nor the provider that belongs to. So it'd be cool if I could you know, talk to someone who has involvement with that, because frankly, I do no

RE: Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 09:55 -0800, Alex Lanstein wrote: > >>>Also, the fact that Atrivo is *dead* and this > >>>stuff is still listed means that anyone who gets > >>>those blocks from ARIN next are basically screwed > > Why would you say Atrivo is dead? > > r...@localhost --- {~} nslookup www.go

RE: Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 17:25 -0800, Alex Lanstein wrote: > William Pitcock wrote: > >>>Cernal and Atrivo are two different entities, Atrivo used to host > >>>Cernal, but now they have different hosting arrangements. > > I now understand the original point you wer

Re: Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 23:39 +, John Levine wrote: > >ASPEWS is listing 216.83.32.0/20 as being associated with the whole > >Atrivo incident of 2008. My memory does not recall 216.83.32.0/20 being > >involved, nor the provider that belongs to. > > Since nobody but the occasional highly vocal G

Re: Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-12 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 18:02 +0100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Michelle Sullivan wrote: > > Seth Mattinen wrote: > >> > >> You should still be able to submit a ticket to SORBS, no? I was > >> always under the impression that it was "open a ticket and wait or > >> you are moved to the back of

Re: Is there anyone from ASPEWS on this list?

2009-12-14 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 11:32 +0100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: > Read the last paragraph again.. "will be submitted for delisting" .. not > "has been delisted and it will take 3-5 hours to propagate"... I have to > process all removals manually after the robot because the robot does get > it wrong,

IP to authoritative CIDR webservices

2009-12-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Does anyone know of a webservice that converts a given IP into the public CIDR range that belongs to? I am developing a tool where IP to CIDR conversion based on RIR whois data would be useful for implementing filtersets. William

Re: IP to authoritative CIDR webservices

2009-12-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:10 -0800, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > Current RIR whois actually does that. > > ie: search for 199.4.29 > it will show you 199.4.28/22 Yes, but it has to be parsed, and RIRs have varying whois formats. ARIN vs RIPE whois output, for example. William

Re: IP to authoritative CIDR webservices

2009-12-14 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 2009-12-14 at 21:12 -0800, Paul Ferguson wrote: > On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:57 PM, William Pitcock > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Does anyone know of a webservice that converts a given IP into the > > public CIDR range that belongs to? I am devel

Re: Arrogant RBL list maintainers

2009-12-16 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 16:55 +, Sven Olaf Kamphuis wrote: > thing is that it's illegal to maintain a database with "personal details" > which ip addresses according to various german courts are (don't ask.. > mmk? ;) ofcourse we all know ip addresses identify nodes on a network, not > perso

Re: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 20:12 -0800, Paul Ferguson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Keith Medcalf wrote: > > > > > Without a warrant, there is an absolute right to privacy. > > It continues to exist right up until either (a) one party ch

Re: RBN and it's spin-offs

2009-12-30 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 23:25 -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 11:13 PM, William Pitcock > wrote: > > > It "worked" against Indymedia UK: http://www.indymedia.org/fbi/ > > indymedia is in texas, no mlat required. It was an MLAT initiated

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:24 -0500, Robert Brockway wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > > In the most basic terms, a stateful firewall performs bidirectional > > classification of communications between nodes, and makes a pass/fail > > determination on each packet based on a)

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-06 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 01:47 -0600, James Hess wrote: > On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 11:41 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2010, at 11:52 AM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > > DDoS attacks are attacks against capacity and/or state. Start reducing > > DDoS, by its very nature is a type of attack tha

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-07 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 11:30 -0600, Brian Johnson wrote: > Has anyone noticed that accessing http://www.he.net or > http://ipv6.he.net is either slow or inaccessible? > > Please let me know if you have a different experience currently. It is up here. > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email message,

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-22 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 22:16 -0500, Steven Bellovin wrote: > On Jan 22, 2010, at 12:26 AM, Bruce Williams wrote: > > > The problem with IE is the same problem as Windows, the basic design > > is fundementally insecure and "timely updates" can't fix that. > > You do realize, of course, that IE is r

RE: DDoS mitigation recommendations

2010-01-27 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 2010-01-26 at 09:56 -0800, Gerald Wluka wrote: > > I am new to this mailing list - this should be a response to an already > started thread that I cannot see: > Welcome to NANOG! > > > IntelliguardIT has a new class of network appliance that installs inline > (layer 2 appliance)

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-11 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 17:12 -0700, Blake Pfankuch wrote: > Anyone have some insight on a good dual stack Linux (or BSD) router distro? > Currently using IPCop but it lacks ipv6 support. I've used SmoothWall > Express but not in some time and not sure how well it works with IPv6. Not > looking

Re: Linux Router distro's with dual stack capability

2010-02-11 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 13:05 -0500, Jack Carrozzo wrote: > Lots of people roll FreeBSD with Quagga/pf/ipfw for dual stack. See > the freebsd-isp list. FreeBSD's network stack chokes up in DDoS attacks due to interrupt flooding. We used to use FreeBSD for firewalling and basic routing, but whe

Re: Chuck Norris Botnet and Broadband Routers

2010-02-22 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 16:21 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: > Last week Czech researchers released information on a new worm which > exploits CPE devices (broadband routers) by means such as default > passwords, constructing a large DDoS botnet. Today this story hit > international news. > What makes

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 11:29 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: > Isn't the timestamps inserted by syslog rather then the reporting > program itself? The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp may be used instead of th

Re: Future timestamps in /var/log/secure

2010-02-26 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 19:30 +, gordon b slater wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 13:17 -0600, William Pitcock wrote: > > The syslog message sent to the local unix socket (/dev/log > > or /dev/syslog) may contain a timestamp, in which case, that timestamp > > may be used inst

Re: YouTube AS36561 began announcing 1.0.0.0/8

2010-03-12 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 22:52 -0800, Nathan wrote: > Hello, > > I'm hoping to alleviate the "what's going on!?" type messages here this time. > :) > Any IPs we can ping and get a response back from to verify everything is ok? 1.2.3.4 isn't pingable, for example. :( William

Re: OBESEUS - A new type of DDOS protector

2010-03-16 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 2010-03-16 at 07:53 +, gordon b slater wrote: > Hmm, the "hey! it's open source!" factor doesn't hold much sway in the > network world, no-one will be amazed at that. Many observers are > surprised at the amount of free software employed by ISPs and the > like, but it's certainly no new

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-18 Thread William Pitcock
Hello, Few people actually care about nsp-sec so what exactly are you getting at? "Guillaume FORTAINE" wrote: >Misses, Misters, > >I would want to inform you that the security of the Internet, that is >discussed in the NSP-SEC mailing-list [0] by a selected group of vendors >(Cisco, Juniper &

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 23:52 -0400, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Mar 18, 2010, at 11:46 PM, William Pitcock wrote: > > > Few people actually care about nsp-sec so what exactly are you getting at? > > I might argue the "few" comment, but I think it's better not t

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-19 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote: > An ongoing area of work is to build better closed, > trusted communities without leaks. Have you ever considered that public transparency might not be a bad thing? This seems to be the plight of many security people, that they have to be

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-20 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 20:30 +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > On Fri, 19 Mar 2010, William Pitcock wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-03-19 at 08:31 -0500, John Kristoff wrote: > >> An ongoing area of work is to build better closed, > >> trusted communities without leaks. &g

Re: NSP-SEC

2010-03-20 Thread William Pitcock
On Sat, 2010-03-20 at 22:12 +0200, Gadi Evron wrote: > On 3/20/10 8:37 PM, William Pitcock wrote: > > That is not what I mean and you know it. > > What do you mean than? Hank made a good point on the type of traffic > normally going through these groups. My point hasn't

Re: You Tube Problems

2011-02-03 Thread William Pitcock
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 16:37:55 +1300 (FJST) Franck Martin wrote: > Any relation? > > http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/02/04/0043234/Verizon-To-Throttle-High-Bandwidth-Users No, that has to do with wireless users, not DSL. Wireless is an entirely different part of the Verizon empire. William

Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:12:40 -0600 "Aaron Wendel" wrote: > How can someone steal something from you that you don’t own? > > Legacy space. The best example I can think of was Choopa's hijacking of Erie Forge and Steel's legacy space. In this case, it was theft as it was a legacy allocatio

nlayer contact

2011-02-05 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, Could an nLayer network engineer contact me offlist regarding a service or core router at I'm guessing One Wilshire that is having serious problems? Thanks. William

Re: Contact for APEWS.org?

2011-02-21 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:41:57 -0800 Kate Gerry wrote: > We've been advised by a client that they're incorrectly listing > a /15. The listing is: > > (E-431420) 96.44.0.0/15 > > According to their FAQ they only take delistings via newsgroups and > Google News isn't co-operating with me in re

Re: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-03-01 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Tue, 1 Mar 2011 09:25:23 + (GMT) Tim Franklin wrote: > > I do not live over there, I have never seen a Vonage or Magic jack > > or any other VoIP service ad on TV in the UK, ever. > > Vonage *are* advertising on UK TV. Hardly the carpet-bombing the OP > suggests is the case in the

Re: [BEWARE] David J. Moore

2011-03-04 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:03:18 -0500 Leon Kaiser wrote: > This is the man who poisoned DroneBL. He is a bad man. Keep your > children safe. > http://raged.tittybang.org/ How, exactly, has kunwon1 poisoned DroneBL when he has had no RPC key for over a year? William

Re: Ranges announced by Level3 without permitions.

2011-03-04 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:34:11 +0100 Alfa Telecom wrote: > On 03/03/2011 03:25 PM, Brandon Ross wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Alfa Telecom wrote: > > > >> Both ranges are from RIPE region and couldn't be announced from > >> ARIN ASN at all. > > > > Your premise is incorrect. Any block from any RI

Re: Why does abuse handling take so long ?

2011-03-13 Thread William Pitcock
On Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:39:02 -0700 (PDT) goe...@anime.net wrote: > On Sun, 13 Mar 2011, Alexander Maassen wrote: > > Why o why are isp's and hosters so ignorant in dealing with such > > issues and act like they do not care? > > they don't act like they do not care. they really *don't* care. no >

Re: IPv6 SEO implecations?

2011-03-28 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:18:30 -0700 Wil Schultz wrote: > I'm attempting to find out information on the SEO implications of > testing ipv6 out. > > A couple of concerns that come to mind are: > > 1) www.domain.com and ipv6.domain.com are serving the exact same > content. Typical SEO standards are

Re: Contact for City of Panama City Beach, FL?

2011-04-14 Thread William Pitcock
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:02:36 -0700 Dan Dill wrote: > http://www.pcbgov.com/city_directory.htm > > Seems like it wouldn't be hard to track down that information... Can you identify where on that page it lists a contact for the IT department of the Panama City government? I can't, because it doe

Re: Cent OS migration

2011-05-09 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 9 May 2011 17:14:06 -0400 Lamar Owen wrote: > On Monday, May 09, 2011 04:45:36 PM Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Depends on what he is doing. BSDs tend to be far more mature than > > any Linux. They are poor systems for desktops or anything like > > that. They are heavily used as servers by man

Re: VPN tunnels between US and China dropping/slow

2011-05-10 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:12:57 -0400 "Thomas York" wrote: > At my current place of business, we have several manufacturing plants > in China as well as the United States. All of the plants have an OVPN > tunnel to a datacenter here in Indianapolis which connect all of the > plants. Our China plants

Re: 23,000 IP addresses

2011-05-10 Thread William Pitcock
On Tue, 10 May 2011 10:22:03 -0400 Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Scott Brim > wrote: > > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 09:42, Leigh Porter > > wrote: > >> So are they basing this on you downloading it or on making it > >> available for others? > > > > Without knowing t

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

2011-05-18 Thread William Pitcock
On Wed, 18 May 2011 13:07:32 -0700 Landon Stewart wrote: > Lets say you had a file that was 1,000,000,000 characters consisting > of 8,000,000,000bits. What if instead of transferring that file > through the interwebs you transmitted a mathematical equation to tell > a computer on the other end

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