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Did cambrian go to "business hours only" contact/noc numbers?
by alex＠yuriev.com 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Hello, If anyone has a contact number at Cambrian which does not believe that the service that they are providing are supposed to have trouble-reporting capabilities outside 9-5 EDT hours on weekdays, I would greatly appreciate hearing about it. Alex

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Re: Any way to P-T-P Distribute the RBL list
by Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Distributing an RBL list is the easy part. There are a variety of methods in place that can provide sufficient reliability and are sufficiently anonymous or difficult to attack, such as Usenet and Freenet and Gnutella and probably Kazaa, and it's not too hard to develop efficient data formats for baseline and incremental update and detail records (easier for IPv4 blocking than IPv6 :-), and you can use PGP or other digital signatures to protect the integrity of the transmission. SMOP... There are some problems with broadcasting the list as opposed to doing transactional interaction - a list of "mis-configured open relays or proxies with updates" is not much different from the spamware spammers' products of list of new still-usable open relays. (It's a bit less useful, because they know that some people are blocking them, but they also know that lots of people aren't.) The other half of the communications process is harder - getting the information on spammers to the list maintainer without exposing the list maintainer to attack. A simple usenet group or IRC channel can be flooded, and email can be mailbombed, and the obvious way to do it is with bogus spam reports to reduce the integrity of the information. And some of it's an arms race, e.g. spammer submits a purported open relay to list-manager the list-manager's tester tests the "relay", and the "relay" captures the tester's IP address for DDOSing. There are spam-reporting reputation systems - Cloudmark and Vipul's Razor do some of that, if imperfectly, or simple subscriber-only systems can stay below the radar (even though they'll have some spammers subscribing...) and you could probably build one that was P2P for a bit more safety.

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RE: Italy: the latest member of the blackout club
by Baldwin, James 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/3146136.stm James Baldwin > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Donelan [mailto:sean@donelan.com] > Sent: Saturday, September 27, 2003 11:44 PM > To: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Italy: the latest member of the blackout club > > > > Joining the Northeast parts of the United States and Canada, parts of > Denmark and Sweden; Italy is the latest country to experience widespread > power failure of the electrical grid. > > According to the Italian national electric company ACEA, power is out > in almost the entire country. > > The cause is not known. > >

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Italy: the latest member of the blackout club
by Sean Donelan 28 Sep '03

28 Sep '03

Joining the Northeast parts of the United States and Canada, parts of Denmark and Sweden; Italy is the latest country to experience widespread power failure of the electrical grid. According to the Italian national electric company ACEA, power is out in almost the entire country. The cause is not known.

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A list of (mostly) technical consequences of TLD wildcards
by Duane Wessels 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

I've been collecting a list of things that are broken, or might break, now that the two most populated TLDs have A and MX record wildcards. You can find the list at http://www.packet-pushers.net/tld-wildcards/ I'll be happy to receive any additions or corrections that you might have. Duane W.

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Re: [OT] question on NANOG meetings
by Brandon Butterworth 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

> the it behaves well in varying network conditions, which cannot be said > from either WM or RM. Quality of the link from encoder to Real server is important, send garbage to the server and it has nothing to distribute. I get the impression it's done in band with other NANOG traffic and may be suffering against the warez traffic. Some details of that link and the server loading would be interesting, anyone got details from previous meetings? brandon

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[OT] question on NANOG meetings
by William Caban 27 Sep '03

27 Sep '03

Are NANOG meetings webcasted? More specifically, Is NANOG29 going to be webcasted/multicasted/netcasted? Thanks, William -- William Caban <william(a)hpcf.upr.edu>

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Re: Average case performance vs. Worst-case guarantee
by sthaug＠nethelp.no 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

> When an ISP buys a router does it want a worst-case guarantee about the > router's capabilities? Or will it buy a router which can give better > performance in the average case (it may drop some packets if the traffic > pattern changes suddenly)? Assuming both cost the same. Worst case guarantee is necessary in many cases. Easy example: A router that can handle an STM-1 of regular Internet traffic is worthless to us if it dies in the face of an STM-1 with minimum sized attack traffic. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug(a)nethelp.no

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Submit your comments on Verisign's SiteFinder service to ICANN
by Craig A. Huegen 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Hi all, I strongly recommend that if you have an opinion on the Verisign SiteFinder service, that you visit http://www.icann.org/general/wildcard-history.htm and submit your comments appropriately ahead of the October 7 meeting of the SSAC. /cah

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Re: FW: e-bay
by Mike Tancsa 26 Sep '03

26 Sep '03

Its sad how many people get taken in by obvious and less obvious scams like this.... But I guess this is as old as the "knock knock: Wallet inspector."... There was a similar paypal scam that had "click here to go to www.paypal.com" which looked and displayed nice and legit in the email, but the href really sent you to a site in Korea that looked exactly like the paypal login screen.... "Thank you for verifying your information".... Indeed! ---Mike At 12:25 PM 26/09/2003, Mike Tomasura wrote: > > I guess e-bay had some problems? A few users got this message from them. > > > > Dear eBay user! > > > > At 09.24.2003 our company has lost a number > > of accounts in the system during the database > > maintenance. If you have an active account, please > > click on the link below to update your credit card > > information. If you have problems with your account, please let us know > > at email support(a)ebay.com <mailto:support@ebay.com> > > > > https://cgi.ebay.com/saw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?UpdateInformation > > <https://e%31bay.com/saw-cgi/?UpdateInformation> > > > > > > > >

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