November 2003 - Test - lists.nanog.org

Reliance buys FLAG
by Suresh Ramasubramanian 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

Which means that the undersea cable that feeds most of the connectivity to India (and till recently was, other than satellite, the main connectivity coming in here), now gets to be open to all comers I guess. The (former) incumbent monopoly telco VSNL had exclusive landing rights and reselling rights on FLAG - and 1. refused to allow local peering 2. lit up maybe a fraction of available FLAG capacity (even though there was a lot of demand) This sounds real good to me - except that Reliance is not exactly the sort of company I'd choose to do this. > http://www.convergenceplus.com/oct03%20itu%2042.html > >> October 17, 2003 >> Reliance to acquire FLAG for $207 million >> GENEVA -- FLAG Telecom Group Ltd., a leading provider of international wholesale network transport and communications services, has entered into an agreement and plan of amalgamation with Reliance Gateway Net Pvt. Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Infocomm Ltd., pursuant to which Reliance Gateway will acquire 100 percent of the company's common shares ... >> >> Reliance, India's largest business group, is a major customer of FLAG. It holds 18 fixed licenses around the sub-continent, as well as running cdma2000 1x WLL (M) services. >> >> FLAG was formed in 1997, the world's first non-club cable operator. However, it was hit by the waves of fresh long-haul capacity launched into the international market by companies such as Global Crossing, Asia Global Crossing and Level 3. It emerged from bankruptcy in October 2002. Although it signed $77 million of new business in the first two quarters this year, FLAG Telecom Group's second quarterly filing showed a loss of $25.8 million on revenue of $33.5 million. -- srs (postmaster|suresh)(a)outblaze.com // gpg : EDEDEFB9 manager, outblaze.com security and antispam operations

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Re: short question
by sthaug＠nethelp.no 03 Nov '03

03 Nov '03

> I have a question. I need for a project a small router than can do 2xFE > @wire speed, IOS IP feature set, and it will do BGP with a small subset of > the global routing table (~1000 networks). > > Price is a big issue, but so is stability and reliability of the > platform. Cisco Catalyst 3550 with EMI feature set. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug(a)nethelp.no

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Telstra took 10 days to understand virus, Senate panel told
by Sean Donelan 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Telstra reported on the problems viruses caused its network to a Senate panel in Australia. http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/03/1067708121544.html Telstra took 10 days to understand virus, Senate panel told Canberra November 3, 2003 Telstra spent 10 days trying to understand the Swen virus that wreaked havoc on its BigPond network and left customers without email services, a Senate committee heard today. Telstra officials conceded information they were giving BigPond customers when the virus hit last month changed as they learned more about the virus. Regulatory and corporate director Bill Scales said it took Telstra 10 days to fully understand the problem. [...] Mr Scales said Telstra was 99 per cent sure the Swen virus was to blame for the problems. "We think it was this Swen virus, we're reasonably sure that it affected us in Australia more than it affected a number of other countries for a range of reasons," he said. [...]

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FBI arrests tower saboteur: spokane washington
by Sean Donelan 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Today, the California Highway Patrol arrested a Spokane, Washington man in connection with the sabotage of 10 west coast electric grid towers. http://bend.com/news/ar_view%5E3Far_id%5E3D12260.htm Tower saboteur: I was only pointing out flaws By Barney Lerten Bend.com [...] Crews last Thursday had found bolts removed from three of four legs of a high-voltage power line tower south of Sacramento. It was the week's second case of sabotage in that area and the 10th such incident along the West Coast in 10 days, as the FBI intensified its search for Poulin. [...] The FBI's Sacramento Division last month obtained a federal arrest warrant charging Poulin with damaging or attempting to damage an energy facility, said Portland FBI spokeswoman Beth Anne Steele. That carries a potential 20-year prison term, if convicted.

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Sabotage investigation of fiber cuts in Northwest
by Sean Donelan 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

KIRO TV has a report concerning the fiber cuts targeting a particular fiber route in the Northwest US. It has been been disrupted four times in the last two years, not by backhoes, but by someone entering a fiber hut. North Sound 911 Service Repeatedly Targeted by Chris Halsne KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Investigative Reporter [...] This person hasn't been randomly chopping entire bundles of cables, but rather he or she is using surgical precision to black out one particular 911 emergency call center. Early in the morning of Sept. 3, some criminal strolled into a Qwest Telecommunications server station with tools in hand and carefully sliced one strand of wire. [...] Operators couldn't help but feel a sense of dj vu. KIRO Team 7 Investigators have learned that someone intentionally rerouted, cut or altered 911 service to Whatcom County on three occasions in two years. Each time the criminal entered the same Qwest fiber optics "hut" to create the chaos. [...] http://www.kirotv.com/news/2601577/detail.html

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RE: Harassment (was Re: ELAN.NET ...)
by Michel Py 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

> Richard Cox wrote: > The only relevance of those postings to this group can be > found by observing exactly how the MX (69.60.142.242) for > his email address (MBooth(a)corp.as26857.com) answers on > Port 25. Most interesting! Indeed. Would be worth taking action with nic.us. Michel.

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short question
by Ariel Biener 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

Hi guys/gals, I have a question. I need for a project a small router than can do 2xFE @wire speed, IOS IP feature set, and it will do BGP with a small subset of the global routing table (~1000 networks). Price is a big issue, but so is stability and reliability of the platform. Any quick suggestions ? My experience in the low end lacks. --Ariel -- Ariel Biener e-mail: ariel(a)post.tau.ac.il PGP(6.5.8) public key http://www.tau.ac.il/~ariel/pgp.html

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RE: IPv6 NAT
by Michel Py 02 Nov '03

02 Nov '03

> Joe Abley wrote: > There's no useful way to use H.323 through a NAT though, > at least that I have seen working. In enterprises this has never been a problem as H.323 works fine over any kind of tunnel that goes over NAT and that's already there for other purposes (VPN for example). I have multiple h.323 VOIP phones at home over one IP address, one that is actually IPSEC encrypted. As of SIP, Vonage does indeed use it so are many other SIP shops and it works fine over NAT Vonage or not Vonage. I am not that familiar with the Cisco ATA-186 (too pricey) but on other SIP phones such as the popular $70 Grandstream if you know the IP address and port of the remote SIP phone you want to join you can dial it directly. Michel.

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Re: IPv6 NAT
by Michael.Dillon＠radianz.com 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

>This does not mean we should NAT everything, since I use some of those >protocols. But if every Joe User had a DLink NAT box in front of his >Winbloze box, the Internet would be a safer place. And you know it. You're forgetting Rob Thomas's peripatetic presentation in Chicago. Not to mention the guy whose SSH session was outed by a keylogger. Check http://www.safer-networking.org/ for more on spyware and trojans. If this was the only way the black hats could wreak havoc then we would be seeing a lot more of it. I think that the only thing which will make the Internet a safer place is time and hard work. We have to put in the effort to address *ALL* the weaknesses until we've raised the bar so high that only the toughest black hats have the time, skills and energy to break the weakest link. --Michael Dillon

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RE: Portscans/PROXY scans
by John_York＠Dell.com 01 Nov '03

01 Nov '03

> I'm thinking > about blocking > the entire /8, as noone on our network needs any contact with > Asia. Sorry to reply to my own email, but due to a few off-list replies I feel the need to state: I'm not speaking of Dell's network - it's another, much smaller company. </disclaimer> </job protection :)>

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