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*scream* Cannot contact AT&T WorldNet NOC
by Eric Wieling 28 Sep '97

28 Sep '97

Does *anyone* have a contact number for someone that does not keep asking me if I'm running a Windows machine? Every number I have for them, connects me to some moron that has no clue when I say "It appears that someone from your network is attempting to flood our network". Asking to be connected to Security gets me an e-mail address and asking for a supervisor get me "He's not avainable" Whois on att.net get me a voice mailbox saying that they are closed on the weekends. --Eric -- Eric Wieling (eric(a)ccti.net) Corporate Communications Technology Sales: 504-585-7303 (sales(a)ccti.net) Support: 504-525-5449 (support(a)ccti.net) I don't bother to set my alarm clock anymore. Someone always pages me before I need to wake up anyway.

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URL: Spammers Lose Access, IEMMC Collapses
by Paul Ferguson 28 Sep '97

28 Sep '97

See: http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/daily/970922e.html - paul

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NANOG MEETING INFO
by Pam Ciesla 26 Sep '97

26 Sep '97

Lunches at the NANOG Meeting in Phoenix, AZ, October 27 & 28 will include vegan/vegetarian and/or meat. If you have any special request, such as kosher, please let me know ASAP. The room block at the Radisson Resort (602-991-3800) ends at midnight, Friday 9/26. If the hotel still has rooms available after this date you can still request the NANOG room rate. Check out the airline discount rates. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Pam Ciesla 313-936-0172 - phone Merit Network, Inc. 313-647-3185 - fax University of Michigan 4251 Plymouth Road Bldg. I, Suite C Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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The Cidr Report
by Tony Bates 26 Sep '97

26 Sep '97

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Re: Part of the state of Hawaii off-line
by Chris A. Icide 26 Sep '97

26 Sep '97

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RE: not rewriting next-hop, pointing default, ...
by 水越一郎 26 Sep '97

26 Sep '97

Enke Chen [SMTP:enkechen@cisco.com] wrote on Saturday, September 13, 1997 2:29 AM Enke>For ISPs with a lot of direct (i.e., private) peers, on the public Enke>NAP routers you may want to consider not installing the routes from the Enke>private peers. This approach could reduce the damage to your private Enke>links by default-pointing attack. It may also make you less likely Enke>a target due to black-holing of certain traffic. And on the NAP router, adding the blackhole segment ( null 0 or dumb ether etc.) On cisco, null 0 is not recomended for its process switching set the default route to the blackhole segment check the packet in the segment. These packets are routed by default, so call the routing police :-) Enke>This approach is not applicable if transit service is provided at Enke>the public NAP. Peering in tunneling COULD work. ichiro(a)byd.ocn.ad.jp (AS4713<-AS2521<-AS2519)

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[Fwd: Fwd: Ellison Quick On Feet As NC Demo Crashes And Burns 09/24/97]
by leong＠inversenet.com 26 Sep '97

26 Sep '97

This is off topic but the attached is so hilarious (probably not to the poor soul responsible for setting up the demo!) ..... Regards, John Leong ------

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FBI Encryption bill defeated
by Rodney Joffe 25 Sep '97

25 Sep '97

Operational interest to all ISPs: Rodney Joffe Chief Technology Officer Genuity Inc., a Bechtel company http://www.genuity.net Forwarded::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::: From: Alan Davidson To: crypto(a)spa.org Subject: [1 Crypto] Update: Oxley/Manton defeated 35-16 Date: Wednesday, September 24, 1997 9:06PM [Now available on CDT's Web site...] The House Commerce Committee has approved a modified version of SAFE this evening, rejecting the FBI-backed Oxley-Manton "Big Brother" amendment on a vote of 35-16. The export relief provisions of the original SAFE bill were passed intact. The Committee also approved an amendment offered by Reps. Markey (D-MA) and White (R-WA). The amendment create a National Electronic Technologies Center (NET Center) which would assist law enforcement in research and would provide assistance to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies in coping with encryption encountered in the course of investigations. The amendment also would direct the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) to conduct a study of the implications of mandatory key recovery, and increases the criminal penalties under SAFE for the use of encryption in the furtherance of a federal felony. The amendment passed 40-11. The Committee then approved SAFE, with the Markey-White amendment, on a vote of 44-6. Today's vote is an significant defeat for efforts to impose domestic controls on encryption. In the face of tremendous pressure from the FBI, the Commerce Committee chose not to require all Americans to use encryption that guarantees law enforcement "immediate access" to their private online communications. The bill now must be reconciled with versions approved by four other committees before moving to the House floor. Rules Committee Chairman Gerald Solomon (R-NY) stated today that he will not bring SAFE up for consideration unless it contained the Oxley-Manton amendment. As a result, it appears unlikely that the bill will be voted on by the House any time soon. More information, along with the text of the amendments, will be posted soon at http://www.cdt.org/crypto. [Note: The unofficial text of the Markey-White Amendment -- as it was originally intended to be introduced today before some modifications due to procedural manuevers -- is now available on CDT's web site. We hope to have the official text available tomorrow.]

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Re: Traffic locality and other questions
by Sean M. Doran 25 Sep '97

25 Sep '97

Sean Donelan <SEAN(a)SDG.DRA.COM> writes: > I have some questions whether it is better to aggregate traffic into > a single huge flow, or if it is better to have lots of > smaller paths. Ah, good question. What seems to scale better is aggregating things into large buckets which are switched together rather than merely filtering lots of small individually-switched buckets of data through single pieces of equipment. There are some assumptions driving this. Firstly, it is easier to move large numbers of symbols per second than it is to make large numbers of switching decisions. Secondly, it is possible to build a hierarchical routing scheme that can take advantage of aggregation opportunities to put similar traffic into big buckets along particular path segments. Thirdly, there are economies of scale which can be exploited when one uses large data pipes that reduce the cost of moving traffic intelligently. If all of these assumptions prove to be invalid, and in particular if it is cheaper to build equipment which are better at switching very small amounts of data across many diverse physical paths, if a routing scheme that can fully exploit this can be developed, and if it is more economical to use many small pipes than a few large pipes, then obviously one would be better off not aggregating traffic, and perhaps even deaggregating it and its complementary reachability information. > BGP isn't very good at showing 'other' transit paths to > networks. BGP is a distance vector protocol and not a map-exchanging protocol. You cannot build a completely accurate map of the Internet from a subset of BGP distance vectors. BGP routers will also only announce their paths of choice to their neighbours, and therefore any other paths they may know will be hidden. > What I find interesting is the rankings of traffic flows I see don't > match with what the pundits rank as the largest network providers. I > don't know what that means though. I suppose it depends on what people describe when they say "largest". Sean.

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OFFTOPIC - encryption
by Jared Mauch 25 Sep '97

25 Sep '97

Please ignore this message, but if you're interested, read on. From: http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=342333 --- cut here -- WASHINGTON (Reuter) -- The House Commerce Committee Wednesday rejected a far-reaching proposal requiring all data scrambling products to include a backdoor allowing government access to otherwise secure computer files and communications. On a vote of 35-16, members of the panel voted against an amendment from Mike Oxley, Republican of Ohio, to impose such controls. --- cut here -- -- ----------------- jared(a)puck.nether.net - Nether Network ------------------ CICNet/IAGNet/NetherNet - finger jared(a)puck.nether.net for pgp key

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