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Re: MCI outage? (Telephone too, problems reaching PacBell)
by Sean Donelan 25 Oct '01

25 Oct '01

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, David Schwartz wrote: > All of our circuits that require connectivity between MCI and PacBell are > out (in the San Jose area). I'm hearing that it's a major MCI outage, > possibly even global or at least regional. We're experiencing telephone > outages as well, for example people with PacBell 'local long distance' can't > reach our MCI voice lines either. Worldcom (MCI) lost its lines to the Spacepark CO. Spacepark is one of those 100 "important" COs. So connectivity between regional Worldcom customers and the rest of the country may be impacted, but the rest of the country/globe is unaffected.

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Alldomains.com registrar?
by Mike Batchelor 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 While investigating the reason for a "no such domain" bounce for a message bound for amgen.com, I found that amgen.com has no records in the gTLD servers. Furthermore, neither does Amgen's registrar, AllDomains.com. Has that registrar gone out of business and taken their customer domains with them? If so, isn't VeriSign and/or ICANN supposed to pick up the slack? Or is this just a coinkydink? - --- "The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote" - Kosh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBO9dLQUksS4VV8BvHEQJUKQCfWLWrt9cpPt03AI14kfjYoxaBKx0AoLPP CrMh7ACBaDpbEwK4cprHpuej =I7oI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Modifying netsol host records?
by Bill Petrisko 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

If there is anyone at netsol who understands the concept of modifying host records, please contact me off-list. Apparently, the front-line tech support does not understand the concept, and submitting the template properly does not work (it does not match on host handle.) bill

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Re: MCI outage? (Telephone too, problems reaching PacBell)
by Margie Arbon 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

--On Wednesday, October 24, 2001 2:58 PM -0700 David Schwartz <davids(a)webmaster.com> wrote: > > > All of our circuits that require connectivity between MCI and > PacBell are out (in the San Jose area). I'm hearing that it's a > major MCI outage, possibly even global or at least regional. We're > experiencing telephone outages as well, for example people with > PacBell 'local long distance' can't reach our MCI voice lines either. > > Anybody know anything? > > We were told an hour or so ago that there was a fiber cut affecting "three loops between Battery and Spacepark". Repair crews on the way, no ETR. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Margie Arbon Mail Abuse Prevention System, LLC margie(a)mail-abuse.org http://mail-abuse.org

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Re: MCI outage? (Telephone too, problems reaching PacBell)
by Roy 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Same here but I am in Verizon territory. I can't reach any numbers on MCI. David Schwartz wrote: > All of our circuits that require connectivity between MCI and PacBell are > out (in the San Jose area). I'm hearing that it's a major MCI outage, > possibly even global or at least regional. We're experiencing telephone > outages as well, for example people with PacBell 'local long distance' can't > reach our MCI voice lines either. > > Anybody know anything? > > -- > David Schwartz > <davids(a)webmaster.com>

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MCI outage? (Telephone too, problems reaching PacBell)
by David Schwartz 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

All of our circuits that require connectivity between MCI and PacBell are out (in the San Jose area). I'm hearing that it's a major MCI outage, possibly even global or at least regional. We're experiencing telephone outages as well, for example people with PacBell 'local long distance' can't reach our MCI voice lines either. Anybody know anything? -- David Schwartz <davids(a)webmaster.com>

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RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
by Paul Wouters 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

I could have sworn I was subscribed to nanog-post :) Paul ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 12:49:32 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Wouters <paul(a)xtdnet.nl> To: batz <batsy(a)vapour.net> Cc: Mike Batchelor <mikebat(a)tmcs.net>, nanog list <nanog(a)merit.edu> Subject: RE: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, batz wrote: > :What would wiretap laws be like if individuals had been able all along to > :operate their own telco switch, if they so desired? > > Funny you should mention that, as I think we are about to find out. The NL has already answered this question last januari. When asked who needs to be tappable, the answer is "everyone who is offering a public internet service". Dutch law defines telecommunication as the "transport of an electronic signal from once physical device to another" and has defined an IP number as a physical device. Tapped data needs to be sent through a special protocol, the Transport of Intercepted IP Traffic (TIIT). Only registered telco's can legally obtain the specification, which apart from a Dutch standard is an ETSI draft. More information on www.opentap.org (it was on cryptome a while ago) (Or hopefully soon my HAL2001 talk will be online at www.hal2001.org) But it is clear to see where this will al end. Windows users on cable or adsl, running SSL/SASL mailservers on their own desktop, without MX fallbacks, and without ISP smarthosts. As a result of sep 11, crypto law proposals haven't really changed much in the NL (move to controlable 'trusted third parties') but it has put the issue on the table, out in the open, instead of being sneaked in through some forgotten political door. Polls helt by newspapers in the last week showed a majority was in favour of stronger laws for crypto and mandatory carrying of ID at all times. I'll just pray that our democracy will never reach a state where every decision will be made through internet based referendums. Paul ps. Yes, if following the letter of the law, SSH is illegal for ISP's. However, no one has dared yet to submit a key escrow patch to the OpenSSH team :) -- We can't have these hidden economies and foul politics in this age anymore. It is just *too* dangerous --- Howard Davies' (FSA) financial views extrapolated

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Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
by Paul Wouters 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 14:07:08 +0200 (MET DST) From: Paul Wouters <paul(a)xtdnet.nl> Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu, patrice(a)xs4all.nl Subject: Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd) On 24 Oct 2001, Paul Vixie wrote: > Redefining what an ISP is, in order to evade the FBI's intent, lacks respect. Redefining an ISP to be an unpaid Private Investigator, Police officer, Lawyer, Judge and Executioner all in one, what many laws have done or are about to do, totally lack respect for its citizens it is supposed to guide. What kind of society have we become when the BVD (Dutch FBI) classify the nations top internet experts as "anarchistic enemies of the state" because they're holding a conference (www.hal2001.org) on privacy, digital rights, and freedom. Paul, your work for the common good (bind, ISC, etc) has earned my deepest respect. But the national security agencies who want to turn this world in a police state have not. They cannot order my respect. They can not take my respect. It's just not there. Yes, working arounds laws, even fundamental human rights, is not the best way to address these issues, but it seems currently, it is one of the few options I have left. What can I do when I only have privacy and freedom left on paper, as an archaic symbol of the past? The legal system has grown beyond the timespan for individuals to have much meaningful influence if you play it by that system, hence you don't play it that way anymore. I know technology, so I'll battle it with technology and let other people who know more about law fight it on their terrain. Hopefully we'll manage to get the laws under control again, instead of being totally controlled by laws. Laws are meant to help citizens and their disputes in a society, and the more ridicilous laws are passed, the more the citizens will treat them only as guidelines. You can't have the cake and eat it too. If only letting of this steam could power an engine :) Paul -- We can't have these hidden economies and foul politics in this age anymore. It is just *too* dangerous --- Howard Davies' (Chairman FSA) financial views extrapolated

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Re: Unix Timestamp
by Henry Yen 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Previously Henry Yen wrote: > Linux 6.2 and up switched to sh-utils-2.0, > which uses "-r" as "refer to date of file", so there's now a clear > divergence. for all those who "reminded" me... --->> There is no such thing as Linux 6.2, the latest release is 2.4.13. s/Linux 6.2/Redhat 6.2/ slap! (ouchy!) :-P ObLinux: linux user since 1993. -- Henry Yen Aegis Information Systems, Inc. Senior Systems Programmer Hicksville, New York

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Re: [NEWS] FBI To Require ISPs To Reconfigure E-mail Systems (fwd)
by Paul Vixie 24 Oct '01

24 Oct '01

Nothing to see. Move along. > > Somewhere along with the power to vote particular politicians in or out > > must come some respect for the laws those people create, even the ones we > > don't think are perfect. > > ... Even the courts say we shouldn't respect laws we feel are unjust. ... I think of civil disobedience as "some respect for the laws" since folks like Randy whose conscience would not permit them to obey certain laws knew that they would likely go to jail and did what they did anyway. Redefining what an ISP is, in order to evade the FBI's intent, lacks respect.

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