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Department of Education contact (BOGON listing)?
by Jack Bates 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Anyone have a good contact? I emailed the whois for the IP network but haven't heard back yet. Didn't find any contact info in whois for ed.gov. :( ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduftcdnsp01.ed.gov. ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduftcdnsp02.ed.gov. ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduptcdnsp01.ed.gov. ed.gov. 86400 IN NS eduptcdnsp02.ed.gov. dig: couldn't get address for 'eduftcdnsp01.ed.gov' Unable to reach their nameservers from 104/8 networks. Other networks are fine. Jack Bates Paradox Networks

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Linux: concerns over systemd adoption and Debian's decision to switch
by Israel G. Lugo 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Hi, Not intending to start a flame war here. I have been referred to the website below, and believe they certainly raise some valid concerns. http://www.debianfork.org/ If you have the time, please take a moment to read over the text, and follow a few links. I am quoting the first few paragraphs as a summary: > We are Veteran Unix Admins and we are concerned about what is > happening to Debian GNU/Linux to the point of considering a > fork of the project. > > Some of us are upstream developers, some professional > sysadmins: we are all concerned peers interacting with Debian > and derivatives on a daily basis. > > We don't want to be forced to use systemd in substitution to > the traditional UNIX sysvinit init, because systemd betrays > the UNIX philosophy. > > We contemplate adopting more recent alternatives to sysvinit, > but not those undermining the basic design principles of "do > one thing and do it well" with a complex collection of dozens > of tightly coupled binaries and opaque logs. I understand discussion on this matter has been quite polarized in some circles. As stated, it's not my intention to start an argument on whether A is better than B, nor do I believe that to be the site's purpose. Rather, I would like to divulge and hopefully incite some productive discussion. Regards, Israel G. Lugo

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inexpensive KVMoIP
by Jared Mauch 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Having recently encountered a problem with a machine, I’m looking for an inexpensive KVMoIP device to place within a facility to take VGA/USB Keyboard for a single host scale. Ideally something that can be properly placed on the internet, but that’s not a showstopper. If you’re willing to loan me one for a week or two as well, let me know too so I can ship it to the site and recover my machine. (Time to start moving to next-gen for personal servers.. *sigh*). - Jared

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NOC Calendar
by James Wininger 28 Oct '14

28 Oct '14

Does anyone on the list have a reference to a good "NOC" calendar? What I mean by that is a calendar that is view only for the NOC, but looks "good" on a larger LCD panel display. Ideally it would automatically rotate on a given schedule (say 6am), and then show only that days scheduled events, there would be no need for the NOC to interact with the calendar, just consume the data. Perhaps it would be color coded to show "DWDM work", vs MPLS work, or even "new installs". But the idea is that the NOC would have readily accessible "view only" at a glance. They would not have to load up outlook, go to calendar, select the MPLS, install etc to see what work is happening. -- Jim Wininger

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Now Hiring At Equinix: Network Architect
by Greg Dendy 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Equinix is now hiring a Network Architect to help design the next-generation of interconnection platforms, come join a great team. http://equinix.hodesiq.com/job_detail.asp?JobID=4652823&user_id= Interested, or know someone that is? Apply online, or let me know. Greg

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RBL alert: impending sh*tshow for rbl.orbitrbl.com
by Mark E. Jeftovic 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

As some of you may know, we recently took over ZoneEdit.com and it's customer base. We've found a domain on the system: rbl.orbitrbl.com which is delegated to zoneedit nameservers, broken (it is not allowed to zone transfer from it's designated master), unresponsive (account owner is not answering email, has an address in Sri Lanka and no telephone number), is using excessive queries (~ >500M queries per day on a "free dns" domain) and attracting repeated, multiple DDoS attacks. As such, we will be wildcarding this zone and setting a long TTL fairly soon. If you're actually using this RBL in your MTAs, now's a good time to stop. (this RBL is broken on 5 out of it's 6 delegated nameservers across 3 separate providers). - mark -- Mark E. Jeftovic <markjr(a)easydns.com> Founder & CEO, easyDNS Technologies Inc. +1-(416)-535-8672 ext 225 Read my blog: http://markable.com

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Trying to identify hosts
by shawn wilson 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

We get lots of probes from subdomains of southwestdoor.com and secureserver.net 's SOA and I'm curious who these guys are? The only web page I could find was southwestdoor redirects to http://www.arcadiacustoms.com and then to http://arcadia-custom.com/ (a hardware company is causing unwanted network traffic - not unless they're owned) Traceroute for southwestdoor.com goes through secureserver.net and they have lots of references (in dns) to themselves, jomax.net and domaincontrol.com. Can someone give me a better picture of how this all fits together on a company level - as in how do these guys make money and why are they probing our network? I understand scans from ISPs and colos, but I can't directly identify these guys as either.

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Re: Linux: concerns over systemd [OT]
by Gregory Boyce 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Gregory Boyce <gregory.boyce(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff(a)ocjtech.us> wrote: >> I think that Debian's plan to allow multiple init systems >> (irregardless of which one is default) is a bad plan. The non-default >> ones won't get any love - at some point they'll just stop working (or >> indeed, work at all). > > If they break then one of two things will happen: > > 1) Someone will fix it. > > 2) No one will fix it because no one cares. If no one cares, then it > being broken doesn't matter. > > Killing off choice/alternatives just in case no one cares about them > isn't especially helpful. Resending since my subscription was apparently a bit off. -- Greg

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RADB
by Brandon Wade 27 Oct '14

27 Oct '14

Hi, I really don't know where else to post this. I recently subscribed to RADB and added route objects and route6 objects for our prefixes we announce. Of course an aut-num object was created and I created a list of ASN's that are downstream customers in an as-set list. But, since this is my first time ever subscribing to a routing registry, I really don't know for sure that I'm doing everything correctly. So, I submitted an e-mail to RADB and requested that they review what I've done and to see if I'm doing it correctly. Well, the reply I received was far less than I could have ever imagined: "RADb is a self-serve service. If you have specific questions, we can address those. However, the type of audit requested is not a part of the standard offering associated with this service." So my question is, how am I supposed to verify that what I've done is what is supposed to be done and that I am doing this correctly? My next question is, why would RADB offer zero support for confirming this? And lastly, why should my organization pay $500 per year to a service that is unwilling to assist in making sure their subscriber is using their service properly? Best regards, Brandon Wade

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pay.gov and IPv6
by Matthew Kaufman 26 Oct '14

26 Oct '14

Random IPv6 complaint of the day: redirects from FCC.gov to pay.gov fail when clients have IPv6 enabled. Work fine if IPv6 is off. One more set of client computers that should be dual-stacked are now relegated to IPv4-only until someone remembers to turn it back on for each of them... sigh. Matthew Kaufman

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