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Poll
by Jon R. Kibler 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Greetings All, I would like to do a little survey among the security professionals on this list. Two Questions: 1) What do you believe will be the next major security threat that we will face in the next 12 to 18 months? 2) What do you believe will be the top 5 (or 10, if your list is that long) emerging security threats we will face over then next 3 years to 5 years? (Emphasis on 'emerging' -- threats not on most people's radar today.) Please reply off list to: SURVEY < A T > SURVEY.ASET.COM I will leave this address open through 6 May and will summarize and publish the results sometime in the following week. TIA for your opinions! Jon Kibler -- Jon R. Kibler Chief Technical Officer A.S.E.T., Inc. Charleston, SC USA (843) 849-8214 ================================================== Filtered by: TRUSTEM.COM's Email Filtering Service http://www.trustem.com/ No Spam. No Viruses. Just Good Clean Email.

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Re: BGP community guide for AS7911 (willtel, now L3)
by Charles Gucker 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

For those of you who are interested. Additional community information has been posted on http://www.onesc.net/communities/as7911 . For those 7911 customers who do use, or want to use communities, this document outlines both 7911 and 3356 communities (to ease the transition to 3356 when the time comes). thanks, charles On 4/27/06, Matthew Sprague <msprague(a)readytechs.com> wrote: > I have this from L3/WCG from Feb... it should still be accurate. > > >7911:90 -> Sets local preference for the prefix with this community to > >>90 7911:100 -> Sets local preference for the prefix with this community > >>to 100 7911:110 -> Sets local preference for the prefix with this > >>community to 110 > >> > >>We set a default local preference on all customer routes to 120. > >>We set a default local preference on all peer routes to 110. > >>We set a default local preference on all transit routes to 100. > >> > >>We accept the well known community "no-export" or 7911:888 which tells > >>us not to advertise the prefix with this community to any other AS. > >> > >>We accept the community 7911:999 which is a conditional advertisement > >>and tells us to advertise the prefixes with this community to our > >>customers only. > >> > >>Finally, we accept and honor all customer MEDs. > -- > Matthew Sprague msprague(a)readytechs.com > ReadyTechs, L.L.C. www.readytechs.com > 973.455.0606, x204 > > ======================================================= > Cut out spam by 98% or more with FilterPro! > http://www.readytechs.com/filterpro > ======================================================= > > > Charles Gucker wrote: > > On 4/27/06, John van Oppen <john(a)vanoppen.com> wrote: > > > >>Does anybody have a list of communities that the old AS7911 accepts from > >>customers? I can't find their guide anywhere and nobody at level3 > >>seems to have it. > >> > >>I really need to keep traffic from a couple of ASes away from them if > >>possible and prepending to them results in almost no usage. In any > >>case, the list is not at http://www.onesc.net/communities/ with the > >>others. > > > > > > It should go without saying, if anybody knows of a guide, or a > > location to obtain the guide, please let me know and I will add it to > > the site, even if it's going to be a short lived guide (from this > > point on). > > > > thanks, > > charles >

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Last-mile strategy for growing ISP
by J. Holmes 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi all - Please forgive my naivity, I've been in the IT industry for several years but have made the transition to IT networks (ISPs) very recently. I attended a networking conference recently and one of the key note speakers (from a large ISP) mentioned in passing the difficulties in delivering IP services to their customers over their last mile infrastructure. As one of the network managers for a growing ISP (our customer being primarily government services) looking to provide more IP services and get more government agencies on to our network, what would be some of the challenges we might encounter in delivering such services to current and new government bodies over our last mile infrastructure ? What should be some of our considerations ? What are some viable / cost-effective strategies ? Where is the industry heading in terms of last-mile offerings ? Are wireless technologies (with some of the current security limitations) viable as a solution -- given the confidential nature of governement data -- in the near future ? Any recommendations or thoughts would be most welcome. Thank you for your time and patience. J. H.

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BGP community guide for AS7911 (willtel, now L3)
by John van Oppen 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Does anybody have a list of communities that the old AS7911 accepts from customers? I can't find their guide anywhere and nobody at level3 seems to have it. I really need to keep traffic from a couple of ASes away from them if possible and prepending to them results in almost no usage. In any case, the list is not at http://www.onesc.net/communities/ with the others. Thanks, John

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Cogent network wide latency
by dlennon＠frontline.net 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

This was taken off of their status page, my peer to them in NYC just bounced. Cogent Network Status/DNS Server Status Description: Welcome to Cogent Communications' Network Status Message. Today is Thursday April 27th 2006 10am EST. At this time, Cogent is experiencing latency and routing issues on the Cogent backbone. The NOC is currently investigating. The Estimated Time to Repair is unknown at this time. Please reference HD412738. http://status.cogentco.com/ Regards, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Damian Lennon Frontline Communications v. 888.FRONTLINE (888.376.6854/402) f. 1.845.947.7399 dlennon(a)frontline.net http://www.frontline.net/ http://www.frontlinelite.com/ http://www.frontlinebackup.net/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Larry the lobster
by Sean Donelan 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I wonder if Ruth reads NANOG? I knew that AT&T did this, but I never knew the name of the person with the job before. ============================= http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114610182322237181.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Ruth Gauweiler, a 55-year-old grandmother with a shock of red hair, was surfing the Internet recently to find out exactly when Madonna tickets would be going on sale. Ms. Gauweiler didn't want to miss the moment that ticket sellers opened their phone lines. An email from Ticketmaster gave her the answer: Friday April 21, at 9 a.m. So, last Friday morning, deep inside AT&T Inc.'s network control center in Bedminster, N.J., Ms. Gauweiler stood before a giant digital display graphing all the AT&T phone traffic in the world. U.S calling spiked at exactly 9 a.m., indicating a huge and sudden increase in call volume. "Madonna at Madison Square Garden," Ms. Gauweiler said. "Back on tour." Ms. Gauweiler's job is specialist for AT&T's global network operations. Thanks to her vigilance, the phone company knew not to worry that something big was going to overwhelm the network. In charge of spotting situations that could trigger "mass-calling events," Ms. Gauweiler spends her days patrolling the Internet, TV news networks and newspapers. She subscribes to every major sports team's email newsletter to keep abreast of events and regularly surfs ticket-vendor Web sites.

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electrical supplies retailer in downtown LA
by Joe Abley 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Anybody here have a favourite electrical supply store in downtown LA (or within easyish driving distance of downtown) which would stock 30A rack-mount power strips fed through a L5-30P twist-lock plug, with output through regular 15A three-pin receptacles? Please reply off-list. I can summarise privately if anybody else wants to know the answer. (Apologies for the non-general-purpose question on this list. I've spent at least a day trying to find this out in other ways before resorting to making this noise, for what that's worth.)

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VZ Maryland contact needed
by William Warren 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I have a client who's been offline all day. The dsl line is fine and their modem and firewall are also fine but data is not making it to them. All traffic to midatlantictime.net seems to get hung up at 130.81.10.226. I have tried from California, and two locations in Maryland and Texas. Sincerely, William Warren -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.

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Verizonwireless.com Blacklisted SMTP
by Chris Riling 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi, What's up with VZW blacklisting a large amount of IP space on their MXes? I have tried sending mail to verizonwireless.com from several boxes on Cogent's network to no avail... Is Cogent on the "bad boy list" yet again? Anyone have a useful contact there? We're not able to correspond with our sales rep via email and they're losing business. I have contacted some NOC engineers with no luck... Trying 162.115.163.69... Connected to mars.verizonwireless.com. Escape character is '^]'. 554-venus.verizonwireless.com 554-Your access to the VZW mail systems has been rejected due to the sending MTA or Network Service Provider's poor reputation / e-mail hygiene on the Internet. 554- 554-Please reference the following URL for more information: 554-http://www.senderbase.org/search?searchString= 554- 554 If you believe that this failure is in error, please contact the recipient via alternate means. Connection closed by foreign host. Thanks, Chris

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Verizon disconnects GlobalNAPs knocking out dialup in MA
by Matthew Crocker 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Although dialup modem pools are a dying breed they are still very much in use around the country. It appears that after many years of legal battles Verizon has decided to terminate all connections to GlobalNAPs in Massachusetts. As you may or may not know, GlobalNAPs handles a lot of dialup modem traffic, including my Tivo and a DS-3 worth of my modems. Billing dispute gone amuck, I don't know who's right or who's wrong but thousands of customers are off-line now because of it. Looks like it'll be a long night tonight :/ Anyone familiar with a Tekelec T7000/Taqua OCX switch and the maze of Verizon paperwork needed to finish getting it online? Once my LRN is activated I can port my modem numbers to my own switch. If they could have just waited a couple of days. -Matt -- Matthew S. Crocker Vice President Crocker Communications, Inc. Internet Division PO BOX 710 Greenfield, MA 01302-0710 http://www.crocker.com

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