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Re: BBN (GTE) Suffers another major power problem.
by wb8foz 08 Aug '97

08 Aug '97

A different-BBN-division friend in Boston said half of Cambridge went dark, and there was one utility death, due to that fire. But BBN was up. MIT has a BBN POP; he wonders if that was went off. [The main facility does have generator backup..] -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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Re: Implementing anti-abuse techniques on ISP networks....
by Andy Pitts 08 Aug '97

08 Aug '97

> I don't know about the "huge players", but we're an Internet Service > Provider, not an Internet Blockage Provider. We don't allow spoofing, > and we don't allow relaying, but we're not about to put filters > to prevent dialup customers from connecting wherever they want. I too, am a small Internet Service Provider, and I too, don't want to block sites that my users may want to access. But there seems to be a few domains that do nothing but generate spam. Am I not providing a service to my users if I prevent them from being smothered with spam from those sites? -- Andy Pitts : "Knowledge is a deadly friend andy(a)rbdc.rbdc.com : When no one sets the rules." http://www.rbdc.com : --King Crimson--

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UUNET - PSI - ?
by jamie＠intuition.iagnet.net 08 Aug '97

08 Aug '97

Something wrong with this? > sho ip bgp 137.39.0.0 255.255.0.0 BGP routing table entry for 137.39.0.0/16, version 533944 Paths: (2 available, best #2, advertised over IBGP) 174 192.41.177.245 from 192.41.177.245 Origin IGP, metric 30, localpref 100, valid, external Community: 2548:668 701 198.32.186.248 from 198.32.186.248 (137.39.3.57) Origin IGP, metric 2, localpref 100, valid, external, best Community: 2548:668 *174*? -- jamie g.k. rishaw dal/efnet:gavroche IAGnet/CICNet/netILLINOIS 'whois JGR2' for PGP keyID/Fingerprint __ Network Operations/TSD DID:216.902.5455 FAX:216.623.3566 \/ 800.637.4IAGx5455 "The machine's fine. It just doesn't work." -dan(a)nic.net

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An end to spam through Graphnet
by dhudes＠graphnet.com 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

Hi folks, Some time back before the latest round of cable cuts and BIND arguments you may recall that I notified everyone that Graphnet was being abused to transit spam. An ugly mess -- between the bounces and the flood of 'remove' from angry recepients plus one wise guy who impersonated our marketing department it brought a dual cpu sparc20 to its knees at its height, with over 100mb on the mail queue awaiting re-delivery or more likely expiration. We have put an end to this madness on our systems by building and configuring the very latest Sendmail v8 and BIND 4.9.6 (attempts to use v8 failed for being too Berkley, on a Solaris 2.x system -- but don't start arguing that here please) in combination with filters on our gateway router. Load has dropped way down on our sparc20, and hopefully the spammers will go play with someone else instead of futilely occupying bandwidth on our circuits . Let this be an object lesson to those of you out there who have yet to upgrade: the spammers will find you sooner or later. They walk down every A record in every zone until they find a victim. They look in public databases like RIPE to see what mailboxes are registered for the zone and they use those names to try to get past your sendmail filters and launch spam in your name (doesn't work on us, I thought of that trick). So go forth to www.isc.org and www.sendmail.org and compile. Dana Hudes Graphnet

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IGP selection
by Marcelo Manta 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

Thanks a lot for the answers about IGP (and for the excellent book recommendation). The results so far are: 50% OSPF 37,5% IS-IS 12,5% IBGP (Using any IGPs when multipath occurs) 0% EIGRP The impressions are that the old backbones use IS-IS and the new ones are using OSPF. -- Marcelo Manta SAGA PGP fingerprint = E3 B8 AC AF 24 61 E7 E5 B8 38 01 D1 3C F4 32 5E

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Re: UUNET more specifics
by jprovo＠ma.ultranet.com 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

[snip] >However, something is certainly odd somewhere: [snip] >Anyone else seeing weirdness ? Yes. 1239 is creating more specifics for 701 across the board. as-path filters ahoy! -- Joe Provo, Network Architect 800.763.8111 x3006 Network Operations Center Fax 508.229.2375 UltraNet Communications, Inc. <jprovo(a)ultra.net>

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ipx to ip conversion
by Stephen Dolloff 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

I know that there must be others of you out there doing this. What would your use to get an ipx and ip network up on the internet. They are running the novell client (not windows for workgroups client) on win 3.1.1. We have tried Cisco (until they cancelled support for their ipx gateway) and we have tried putting the tcp-ip stack on, but it won't install without the workgroups client. -- Stephen Dolloff (Systems Administrator - McHenryCom)

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Problems resolved
by Jake Khuon 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

We are pleased to report that the IRR server on radb.ra.net (whois.ra.net) has resumed operations. Route Server configurations will now proceed as normal. We are sorry for any inconvenience. Please feel free to contact us (rsng(a)Merit.Net) regarding any problems you may be seeing. -- /*====================[ Jake Khuon <khuon(a)Merit.Net> ]=====================+ | Systems Research Programmer, IE Group /| /|[~|)|~|~ N E T W O R K | | Vox: (313) 763-4907 Fax: (313) 747-3185 / |/ |[_|\| | Incorporated | +==[ Suite C2122, Bldg. 1 4251 Plymouth Rd. Ann Arbor, MI 48105-2785 ]==*/

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NSI Bulletin 097-006 | New gtld server
by David H. Holtzman, Sr VP Engineering,Network Solutions,Inc. 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

As mentioned in the 5 year plan with the NSF and as has been discussed with IANA, there is now a gtld only DNS server that is serving com, net, and org. The name of the new machine is: j.gtld-servers.internic.net 198.41.0.21 It will be running in experimental mode while we ascertain operational impact. At some future point, we will be bringing up other machines to better distribute the load for .tld-related lookups. This machine will be temporarily housed at NSI till a suitable home is found. _____________________________________ David H. Holtzman Senior Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.

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Re: UUNET - PSI - ?
by Alex Rubenstein 07 Aug '97

07 Aug '97

48455 network entries (66405/172812 paths) using 10852340 bytes of memory >Anyone else seeing weirdness ? > > Regards, > Andrew --- "Don't go with a spineless ISP; we have more backbone." Alex Rubenstein -- alex(a)nac.net -- KC2BUO -- www.nac.net net @ccess corporation, 201-983-0725 -- 201-983-0725

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