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EarthLink Financier Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
by blitz 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020430/wr_nm/crime_slat… LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Reed Slatkin, the investment advisor who provided start-up funds for Internet service provider EarthLink Inc. , pleaded guilty on Monday to 15 charges of fraud and conspiracy for bilking almost 800 clients out of nearly $600 million. Slatkin, 53, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow under the terms of a plea deal announced by the U.S. Attorney's Office on Mar. 27. A former bishop in the Church of Scientology who was excommunicated from the church earlier this year, Slatkin faces a maximum of 105 years in prison stemming from five counts of mail fraud, three counts of wire fraud, six counts of money laundering and one count of conspiracy. "Your Honor, it is an acceptable representation of my conduct," Slatkin told Judge Morrow after prosecutors described to the court how he had used investments from new clients to pay returns to old clients, in what is commonly known as a Ponzi scheme. The plea agreement took nine months to hammer out, but it is not clear whether Slatkin can pay the $254.6 million in restitution he agreed to pay since he has filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. Slatkin, who surrendered to authorities on April 25, was led by U.S. marshals into the courtroom wearing the standard-issue green jacket, blue pants and manacles around his waist and wrists. "This is part of the process that we've committed to where he is accepting responsibility for his conduct and helping creditors regain their assets," Slatkin's attorney, Brian Sun, told Reuters. Slatkin began talking to the U.S. Attorney's Office last June about a plea deal, two months after resigning from EarthLink's board and one month after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and having his assets frozen. Slatkin admitted in the written plea agreement that he had portrayed himself as a successful financial adviser and provided investors with faked account statements which purported to show that they were achieving above-market returns. In 1993, when it could take hours to log on to the Internet, 23-year-old Sky Dayton decided to found an Internet service provider focused on customer service. He persuaded Slatkin and Kevin O'Donnell to invest $100,000 and EarthLink, now one of the nation's largest ISPs, was launched in Glendale, California, in 1994.

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Ebbers bails out
by Eric Germann 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1020119459695576640,00.html Wodner if he gets to keep the $366M loan? Sidgmore is now in charge...

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Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?
by Beckmeyer 30 Apr '02

30 Apr '02

Marshall et al, It's a lack of IP Address Space - and the numbers I gave - 10's of thousands are probably a bit on the small side - in short order it will be multiples of 100,000 IP addresses. To start with, I'm willing to think in terms of 10's of thousands spread over a handful of "POPs". The application is GPRS (aka 2.5/3G cellular) and each Internet connected user or some major subset of them will likely wind up with an address on their mobile device. - JB

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Foundry at the Edge
by James Thomason 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

We are in the process of selecting a vendor for edge devices in an upcoming deployment, and my direct experience with Foundry is somewhat dated (1999-2000). If you are using Foundry NetIron or BigIron series devices to aggregate a significant number of EBGP peers in a production environment, I would love to hear about your experiences. Specifically, any details you can provide as to overall stability, convergence, performance, and support from Foundry would be greatly appreciated. Please reply off-list. If you are interested in a summary of responses, please send a note to me off-list. Best Regards, James Thomason

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cRTP on WAN routers
by Heath_Dieckert＠Dell.com 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Is anybody aware of a vendor that can supply a layer three device with the capability to pass 2000 or more simultaneous cRTP flows over ATM DS3 without running out of CPU? Each flow is 12Kbit/sec (with RTP header compression). Specifically I am talking about G729a traffic with a 30ms payload. Cisco's 7200 VXR NPE400 seems to be falling far short of our requirements and the larger chassis such as the 6500 doesn't support cRTP over ATM. I haven't tried the 7200 NSE-1 yet for this application because we have had tons of issues with those in an earlier unrelated deployment. Feel free to respond offline if necessary. Heath

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RE: root zone file
by Matt Zito 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

The actual root zone is at: ftp://rs.internic.net/domain/ But if you mean the GTLD zones that used to be part of the root, then: http://www.verisign-grs.com/tld/ and if you mean just the list of the root servers, then: "dig . ns" should give you what you're looking for. Thanks, Matt -- Matthew J. Zito Systems Engineer Register.com, Inc., 11th Floor, 575 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10018 Ph: 212-798-9205 PGP Key Fingerprint: 4E AC E1 0B BE DD 7D BC D2 06 B2 B0 BF 55 68 99 > -----Original Message----- > From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:curtis@maurand.com] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:05 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: root zone file > > > > > Anyone know where I can obtain the latest and greatest? I just tried > ftp.icann.org to no avail (host not found.) which is where I > used to get > them. > Thanks in advance > Curtis > >

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RE: Large ISPs doing NAT?
by Daniska Tomas 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

jb, i've seen this as a part of turnkey solution by one of gprs vendors. they made two service classes - generic (10.0.0.0/8-based with nat) and 'privileged' - with registered addresses. and it was not only a slideware but a real installation but then you have many other large-scale issues like access acceleration, content optimization etc... -- Tomas Daniska systems engineer Tronet Computer Networks Plynarenska 5, 829 75 Bratislava, Slovakia tel: +421 2 58224111, fax: +421 2 58224199 A transistor protected by a fast-acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing first. > -----Original Message----- > From: Beckmeyer [mailto:beck@pacbell.net] > Sent: 29. apríla 2002 18:08 > To: tme(a)multicasttech.com; nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: Large ISPs doing NAT? > > > > Marshall et al, > > It's a lack of IP Address Space - and the numbers I gave - 10's of > thousands are probably a bit on the small side - in short > order it will > be multiples of 100,000 IP addresses. To start with, I'm willing to > think in terms of 10's of thousands spread over a handful of "POPs". > > The application is GPRS (aka 2.5/3G cellular) and each Internet > connected user or some major subset of them will likely wind > up with an > address on their mobile device. > > - JB > >

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Large ISPs doing NAT?
by Beckmeyer 29 Apr '02

29 Apr '02

Is anybody here doing NAT for their customers? I'm looking at a situation where I may have to provide NAPT for tens of thousands of users and am curious as to what hardware is being used, how well it scales, what kind of loads it takes such as: throughput, max simultaneous sessions experienced, session establishment rates, avg # of sessions per user, ALGs you've found necessary, number of sessions supported per public realm IP in reality. I've done a survey of firewall, switch, and router companies so I have their reported numbers and I've done a bit of testing in my lab and have found that reported numbers do not necessarily translate into what the box will experience in something resembling a production network. This is why I'm asking this group - reality can bite! A second area of concern I have is how to enforce AUPs when your users "appearance" can be *very* transitive making tracking back the offender nearly impossible. Any small piece of help, advice, or pointer would be most appreciated. Thanks most much. John Beckmeyer beck(a)pacbell.net

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Re: Google doing regional preferencing on results?
by Hank Nussbacher 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

Probably due to their technology: http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html -Hank >Google appears to have the capability to georeference their index by country >and possibly with even finer geographic granularity. > >I noticed that they are now redirecting users to country specific versions >of their web page which appears to be done through the various IP address to >location tools. > >Given that Google *seems to know* where the user is, and where the web pages >are, perhaps they are now including geographic relevance in the search >engine relevancy metrics.

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RE: root zone file
by Simon Higgs 28 Apr '02

28 Apr '02

At 05:32 PM 4/26/2002 -0400, Matt Zito wrote: Replacing the hints file with the top level zone speeds up lookups, and removes the burden from the root servers: zone "." { type master; file "root.db"; }; However, the best way to do this is to AXFR the root zone off of the root servers (note this is the ORSC root configuration and *NOT* the ICANN root): zone "." { type slave; file "root.db.slave"; masters{ 199.166.24.12; 216.13.126.116; 199.166.28.10; 204.80.125.130; 195.117.6.25; 199.166.31.3; 199.166.31.250; 199.5.157.128; 204.57.55.100; 213.196.2.97; }; }; Irrespective of whether you agree with the contents, this method is a very clean and efficient way to reduce the load on the root servers. >I really don't want to start any discussions about the relative merits of >the ICANN vs. ORSC vs. New.net vs. anything root zones, but I feel like I >need to mention that the main zones on this page are for the ORSC root >servers, not the ICANN ones. The ICANN zone file at the bottom is the hints >file, not the root zone. > >Thanks, >Matt > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: William Warren [mailto:hescominsoon@faithwalk.org] > > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 5:20 PM > > To: Curtis Maurand; nanog > > Subject: Re: root zone file > > > > > > > > Hope this helps > > http://www.superroot.net/downloads.html > > > > Curtis Maurand wrote: > > > > > > > >Anyone know where I can obtain the latest and greatest? I just tried > > >ftp.icann.org to no avail (host not found.) which is where I > > used to get > > >them. > > >Thanks in advance > > >Curtis > > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, Simon -- ###

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