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Re: operational: icmp echo out of control?
by John Kristoff 28 May '02

28 May '02

> > We call them OZZADs and here is how we respond: > > Hmm.. 3 people have asked already "What's an OZZAD?" ;) So I don't have to keep answering this, forwarded to the group: Over Zealous Zone Alarm Dork John

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Request for Comments re: OpenRiver's Riversoft monitoring tools
by Austin Schutz 28 May '02

28 May '02

Would anyone using Riversoft to monitor a large scale IP network mind sharing operational experiences? Please reply off list. If anyone else would care for the same information, I'd be happy to send (off list) a summary of any responses. Thanks! Austin

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ARIN DB down ?
by Mike Tancsa 28 May '02

28 May '02

Anyone know whats up ? wat-border2# whois -h whois.arin.net 192.168.0.0 An error has occured, please contact the administrator. wat-border2# ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike(a)sentex.net Providing Internet since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada www.sentex.net/mike

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AT&T Broadband UseNet leak
by Sameer R. Manek 28 May '02

28 May '02

It appears that attbi have leaked out, what essentially is spam to non attbi customers, who read usenet. Below is the headers. Did attbi recently become green card/immigration lawyers recently? No idea who to report this to, sending this to abuse@ will obviously do little, other then help someone's ticket close metrics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sameer R. Manek Email: manek(a)ghur.net "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." --Isadora Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Path: newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsfeed1. earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!feed2.news.rcn.net!rcn!dca6-feed2.news. algx.net!jfk3-feed1.news.algx.net!allegiance!news.stealth.net!news.stealth.n et!news-east.rr.com!cyclone.kc.rr.com!news.kc.rr.com!news-west.rr.com!cyclon e1.we.ipsvc.net!cyclone.mw.ipsvc.net!news.mw.ipsvc.net!typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net. POSTED!no-remote.post Newsgroups: alt.autos.toyota.trucks Subject: Important information regarding your usenet service From: customer.support(a)broadband.att.com Lines: 40 Message-ID: <bkwH8.389$uh4.76(a)typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net> Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 19:16:23 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.131.1.118 X-Complaints-To: abuse(a)attbi.net X-Trace: typhoon.mw.ipsvc.net 1022267783 24.131.1.118 (Fri, 24 May 2002 15:16:23 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:16:23 EDT Xref: stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net alt.autos.toyota.trucks:32375 X-Received-Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 12:32:04 PDT (newsmaster1.news.pas.earthlink.net) On June 6th, 2002 AT&T Broadband will restructure the configuration of the servers, which provide access to Usenet newsgroups. <snip>

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Pac Bell Internet down?
by Roy 27 May '02

27 May '02

Traces to some PBI IP addresses seem to die at the Sprint-PBI transition.

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ARIN & RADB
by Ralph Doncaster 27 May '02

27 May '02

Did someone at Merit see my posts and decide to start mirroring the ARIN RR (see the source line at the bottom)? [ralph@cpu1693 lralph]$ whois 66.11.160.0(a)whois.radb.net [whois.radb.net] route: 66.11.160.0/23 descr: ISTOP-Montreal Doncaster Consulting Inc. 2720 Queensview Dr Ottawa, ON K2B 1A5 CA origin: AS21936 notify: sysadmin(a)istop.com mnt-by: MNT-ISTOP changed: sysadmin(a)istop.com 20020525 source: ALTDB route: 66.11.160.0/20 descr: Doncaster Consulting Inc. 2720 Queensview Dr Ottawa, ON K2B 1A5 CA origin: AS21936 notify: sysadmin(a)istop.com mnt-by: MNT-ISTOP changed: sysadmin(a)istop.com 20020517 source: ARIN Ralph Doncaster principal, IStop.com div. of Doncaster Consulting Inc.

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OK barge-bridge collision and collapse
by Sean Donelan 26 May '02

26 May '02

A few people asked the interstate-40 bridge collapse in Oklahoma across the Arkansas river. 11 and possible as many as 20 people are believed dead. Although I-40 is a major cross-country interstate, the bridge collapse had no apparent impact on cross-country telecommunications traffic. I'm not aware of any fiber routes across that bridge.

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Selective DNS replies
by Avleen Vig 26 May '02

26 May '02

This subject has probably been talked to death, so I apologise in advance for bringing it up! Is there any DNS server currently availible that can reply to DNS lookups based on the source IP address? Yes, this would be for directing users to a 'local' server hosting www.example.org (or something similar). Yes, this is not the best way of doing it I know :-) I was wondering if there was something available that DID this yet. Thanks. -- Avleen Vig Work Time: Unix Systems Administrator Play Time: Network Security Officer Smurf Amplifier Finding Executive: http://www.ircnetops.org/smurf

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Of Service
by ferguson 26 May '02

26 May '02

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Re: Certification or College degrees?
by Nigel Clarke 26 May '02

26 May '02

IMO: Certifications are a waste of time. You'd be better off obtaining a Computer Science degree and focusing on the core technologies. Why would you devote your career to learning a vendor's command line or IOS? Cisco has done an excellent job @ brainwashing the IT community. The have (unfortunately) set the standard for "Network Engineers". What do you think is more respected, a masters degree in Networking Engineering or a CCIE. In most circles it would be the latter. Cisco's certification program has effected the entire IT community. Their CCIE's are required to recertify every few years, thus forcing them to stay true to the Cisco lifestyle. I've met some CCIE's who don't know any programming languages or any experience with Unix. It's clear that they are one dimensional and unfocused. Why study the same thing over and over? Do you really have X amount of years experience, or do you have 1 years experience X times? Think about it. If you have been in the field for over 5 years and someone new to the industry by way of certification can handle your work load, that is a serious problem. If anything certs should be used as a stepping stone or advancement to new technologies or areas. Then again, the question of CERTS vs. DEGREES might apply differently to someone without any experience. I guess it really depends on what your looking for. --- Nigel Clarke Network Security Engineer nigel(a)forever-networks.com

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