March 2005 - Test - lists.nanog.org

MCI Accepts Verizon's $7.6 Billion Offer
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

MCI Accepts Verizon's $7.6 Billion Offer Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:48 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - MCI Inc. said on Tuesday it accepted a revised takeover bid from Verizon Communications Inc. worth about $7.6 billion, rejecting a $8.45 billion offer from Qwest Communications International Inc. MCI said Verizon's revised offer includes $8.75 per MCI share in cash and $14.75 per MCI share in Verizon stock. Of the $8.75, up to $5.60 would be paid to MCI shareholders when the deal closes. The two companies also increased the termination fee Verizon would be owed if the deal falls through to $240 million. © Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved.

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Re: The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Like I said, interesting article. ;-) - ferg -- Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <brunner(a)nic-naa.net> wrote: Paul, I worked with Houlin Zhao extensively during 2001, and met with him again at the Rome ICANN meeting. He's a smart guy. Eric -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net

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ICANN Publishes Telcordia Report on their Findings and Rankings for .N ET
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

FYI, ICANN has published an update on the selection of a successor operator for the .NET registry: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28mar05.htm - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net

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RE: Ironcore foundry
by David Hubbard 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Issam Hakimi [ Killix ] wrote: > I am in the search of documentation on the ironcore generation of the > routers foundry. All the urls are the welcomes. > Thanks. > > Regards, > Issam Hakimi http://www.foundrynet.com/services/documentation/index.html David

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abuse & security issues > Israel
by Gadi Evron 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

Hello. Back in the mid 90th, it has become a fact that Israel was one of the main focal points of Internet abuse in the world, and reaching abuse contacts was very difficult. Today, we no longer hold that title. Also, some of the ISP's in Israel are now very responsive to abuse, it is not true with most others. Still, a lot of abuse originates from Israeli net space and finding working abuse contacts in meat space remains difficult. We at CERT.gov.il are responsible for the Government's net space [AS8867 / gov.il] and are available to help with any problems originating from our networks if such exist. We are also aiming to help clue up Israeli ISP's in general to Internet abuse, but for now, if anyone has abuse and security issues that need resolving, and yet find it difficult to find who to contact and/or get response/action, feel free to ping me personally here at CERT.gov.il. We will do our best to connect you with the right people, and follow up. Aside to that, I am pleased to announce IL-ops. An active Israeli network operators group that discusses mainly security and spam issues between Israeli ISP's. We here in Israel are making an effort - let us help you. Yours, -- Gadi Evron, Information Security Manager, Project Tehila - Israeli Government Internet Security. Ministry of Finance, Israel. gadi(a)tehila.gov.il gadi(a)CERT.gov.il Office: +972-2-5317890 Fax: +972-2-5317801 http://www.tehila.gov.il

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Re: DNS cache poisoning attacks -- are they real?
by Florian Weimer 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

* Brad Knowles: > At 12:09 AM +0200 2005-03-28, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> I doubt this will work on a large scale. > > It's already been done on a large scale. > >> At least recent BIND >> resolvers would discard replies from the abused caching resolvers >> because they lack the AA bit, so only clients using the resolvers as >> actual resolvers are affected. > > Incorrect. Indeed. > The resolver requiring that the AA bit be set would prohibit anyone > from forwarding queries to another server, which might be answering > from cache. Would you point me to such a configuration? I don't think it will work reliably for this purpose because BIND 9 only waives the requirement for the AA bit if the authority section of the response remotely looks like a referral. I doubt that this is the case if you simply redirect to a cache.

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Ironcore foundry
by Issam Hakimi [ Killix ] 29 Mar '05

29 Mar '05

I am in the search of documentation on the ironcore generation of the routers foundry. All the urls are the welcomes. Thanks. Regards, Issam Hakimi

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Spoofing and Internet Filtering
by Robert Beverly 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Hi all, I'm working on a project designed to determine the extent of ingress and egress filtering on the Internet. Specifically interested in the ability to forge headers and source spoofed packets. The project relies on clients running an active measurement program from as wide a distribution of netblocks as possible. If you're curious about your connection, your upstream or how prevalent filtering is on other's networks, try out the source or one of the binaries from: http://momo.lcs.mit.edu/spoofer/ Many more details of the program, methodology and current results are on the web site as well. Thanks! rob

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VoIP Security Alliance Elects Board of Directors, Announces Projects and Issues Call for Participation
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

Somewhat related to operational issues: "AUSTIN, Texas March 28, 2005 The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA), today announced its newly elected board of directors as well as its short-term projects to develop a threat taxonomy and document security requirements for VoIP networks. VOIPSA is an open group with the purpose of improving the public awareness of issues and best practices for security and privacy of Voice over IP, and is inviting participation in the new projects." http://www.voipsa.org/press/03282005.html - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net

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RE: "Bandwidth Advisors" - www.bandwidthadvisors.com
by Randy Bush 28 Mar '05

28 Mar '05

>>> The NANOG list is not an appropriate place for speculative critiques of >>> the business models of individual companies. >> censorship rears its ugly head again. thank you censors. this >> is sick. > No, this is not censorship at all. since i am helping folk who seem not able to do their literature searches this week, let me help you too http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=censorship which requires you also read http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=censor it is when i don't like what someone has to say that i have to remember to defend their right to say it. this is one of those times. randy

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