July 2005 - Test - lists.nanog.org

Not exactly off-topic, but sooooo not operational.
by Bill Woodcock 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

http://www.woodynet.net/Message%20No.%20419.mp3 -Bill

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Extension For E911 "Not as Good As..." Rule
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Following up from yesterday, Roy Mark writes this in internetnews.com: [snip] Voice over IP providers have another 30 days to inform customers of possible E911 emergency calling limitations -- or pull the plug on their service. After Aug. 30, VoIP providers will have to cut off subscribers who refuse to acknowledge the warning, according to the ruling by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The original deadline was Friday, July 29th. [snip] http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3523236 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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Overhaul of U.S. telecom law to be introduced
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Via the EE Times: [snip] A Republican senator will unveil a rewrite of U.S. telecommunications laws on Wednesday (July 27). Sen. John Ensign, R-Nev., said he will introduce the Broadband Consumer Choice Act of 2005 during a Capitol Hill press conference. "The bill will improve consumers access to communication technology by rewriting outdated telecommunications laws," Ensign's office said in a statement. "One of the bills goals is to reduce government obstacles to technological innovation and expansion." The proposed legislation would replace the Telecommunications Act of 1996. [snip] http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=166402650 - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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freeserve/wanadoo contact
by Simon Waters 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Anyone with clue at Wanadoo UK, or can put me in touch with someone, will do at this point. Specifically to do with their website hosting arrangements.

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Re: NANOG List Server on several BlockLists
by Matthew Sullivan 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Matthew Sullivan wrote: > >> John Palmer wrote: >> >>> FYI: The IP address of the mail server that sends out NANOG list >>> messages >>> (198.108.1.26) is once again on most of the major RBLs. >> >> >> Was a mistake and was removed promptly as soon as we were notified. > > > What was the mistake? Would be informational to know how this happened > (again) and how it's not going to happen again in the future? I'm not going to give the gory details, but part of it was a mistake with a mouse click that I personally made. Ironically the main part of the reason it happened was because I was modifying the scripts to help prevent this sort of thing occuring in the future. Regards, Mat

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NANOG List Server on several BlockLists
by John Palmer 27 Jul '05

27 Jul '05

FYI: The IP address of the mail server that sends out NANOG list messages (198.108.1.26) is once again on most of the major RBLs.

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Internet phone providers given more time on 911
by Fergie (Paul Ferguson) 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Wow, a whole month! A Reuters newswire article by Jeremy Pelofsky, via Yahoo! News, reports: [snip] Internet telephone service providers are getting a month longer to get their customers to acknowledge they know about the limitations of dialing 911 for help, U.S. communications regulators said on Tuesday. [snip] http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050726/wr_nm/telecoms_voip_fc… - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(a)netzero.net or fergdawg(a)sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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6to4 routes disappeared from most of North America?
by Todd Vierling 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

Maybe I missed it, but was there some concerted effort to remove or block access to the 2002::/16 route on the v6 backbone in North America recently? Connectivity to/from 6to4-only hosts seems sketchy at best. Of the US hosts I've tried, only ISC has responded at all to a 6to4 packet -- and they're routing 2002::/16 through WIDE in Japan from what I can tell. >From about half the US IPv6 looking glasses I've tried, the route is missing entirely. By contrast, I can see it everywhere, typically from multiple upstreams, in JP (no surprise there), CH, DE, and FR that I've tried so far. I haven't been using 6to4 for almost 6 months now, but this seems like a really alarming step backwards as far as v6 adoptability goes in dynamic v4-pool environments. Yes, I'm aware of the security implications of 6to4 -- but if the RFC-suggested header address checks are properly performed at the ingress 6to4 gateway, the burden of security falls on the 6to4 user alone, which is (IMHO) an acceptable situation. -- -- Todd Vierling <tv(a)duh.org> <tv(a)pobox.com> <todd(a)vierling.name>

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open source tools help (contract) in DC area?
by Howard C. Berkowitz 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

I need to get some short-term contract help on setting up a lab dealing with SP security issues, in the Washington DC area. Please contact me offline if interested. I am the technoid and will pass you on for the mercenary aspects. ccitraining.net is developing a complex set of network security lab exercises involving Cisco routers and switches, Slackware 10.0 LINUX servers and workstations, and Windows workstations, the latter to be infected with worms as part of running the lab. We need a *NIX administrator to help us get the appropriate, primarily open-source tools installed, running, and documented. Since we do not intend to teach the full tool command set, we will need shell scripts and/or command files to be piped to a telnet/SSH client to let the students access useful tool functions without being fully trained in the device. For that reason, we expect the primary interface to the tools will be command line, so that the tool control can be scripted. Students will use GUI functions only to display output from tools, or to access graphic functions in the tools. Since there are multiple people working on the project in a virtual team, at different locations, it is absolutely essential that documentation be generated at the start of working with a tool, and then to be polished with final parameterization and use documentation. Documentation can be at the level of a couple of man pages, but it is essential that other team members can quickly find out how to parameterize and invoke the tools. Project managers also need to be able to track the status of tool implementation -- we do not consider an undocumented tool as installed. Identified tools include: syslogd RRD (successor to MRTG) MIB objects to be accessed Flowscan/Flowtools (successors to cflowd) Ethereal In addition, we will need a number of scripting tools to make incremental changes to router, switch and host configurations, as well as loading complete executables and images. We will also need Windows control to infect hosts with specific viruses and possibly bots, and to restore infected hosts to a stable environment. Understanding, from the Windows and protocol standpoint, of worms, other DDoS, and BOTNETs will be very helpful. Knowledge of packet crafting tools for *NIX, which let us build arbitrary protocol packets to be used in attacking hosts and routers, will also be a big help.

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Completewhois New Utility - Traceroute
by william(at)elan.net 26 Jul '05

26 Jul '05

This post is a lot lot smaller as is traceroute utility interface at: http://www.completewhois.com/traceroute.htm Basicly this not some new utility but interface to public traceroute utilities of several ISPs all over the world (tried at least two per continent) from one common interface. You can choose traceroute server from the list and then query is redirected and output comes directly from the remote traceroute system. This can be quite usefull as way to diagnose problems from one place rather then going through long list at traceroute.org. Enjoy :) BTW - If you run public traceroute server with CGI that accepts GET parameters (such as nph-trace) then I can add your server to our list, let me know if you're interested. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks william(a)elan.net

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