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RE: xtra rejecting mail from mailing lists?
by Jeremy Clyma 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

At 08:17 26/07/2001 +1200, Tech Support wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Simon Blake wrote: > >> I've got a mailing list on one of my servers that appears to have a > >> bunch of xtra subscribers on it. Postings to the list get sent to about > >> the first 10 xtra users, and then I start getting: > >I had someone come up to me with this too. > >Apparently when they rang up the helpdesk about it they were told > >it wasn't xtra's problem. All I did was suggest they forward the > >bounce to postmaster(a)xtra hoping someone does read email there. > > > >With the 2 examples I saw, it was bouncing emails sent to domains that > >were not hosted at xtra. However emails were sent by xtra customers > >using xtra's smtp server. One of them tried xtra's smtp server after > >they had a problem sending from their own in-house smtp server (thus > >eliminating perhaps a possible problem with their server). > > > >I'll try to get the actual bounce emailed to me. I think it said > >something about being unable to relay email > > > >Lin > >Hmmm, perhaps Xtra subscribe to ORBS, and have blacklisted their own >server..... ;) /sv_tui_ad Yeah. Right. Looks like its a transient error, one which could be caused by the backoff limits we've got in place. Simon, do you know how many concurrent smtp connections was your server attempting to open? --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Fwd: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..' (fwd)
by n.brownlee＠auckland.ac.nz 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

Hello all: You might find this article interesting reading ... Cheers, Nevil ------------------------------------------------------------- Nevil Brownlee Internet Researcher Phone: (858) 534 8338 CAIDA, San Diego ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 22:35:37 -0700 From: k claffy <kc(a)caida.org> To: nanog(a)nanog.org Cc: caida(a)caida.org Subject: 'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..' david moore's analysis of code red: episode 0/1 is at http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red/ [funded by DARPA's ITO office NGI/NMS programs, NSF ANIR, and CAIDA members, david a caida PI] definitely check out jeff brown's animation at bottom; watch carefully around 15:00 for pretty ominous elbow in infection rate (get an epidemiologist to look at it without telling them what it is...) 360,000 machines (well, IP addresses) infected in under 14 hours. from conclusion: // ..in the final analysis, we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck, rather than proactive diligence, maintains the stability of the Internet infrastructure. // it goes without saying that many hosts are still vulnerable. and will likely remain so (to this or the next poison) until our luck runs out. do we expect the next version to have the two weaknesses christopher pointed out today? do we expect the next version won't clear every 3rd bit on the hard drive? almost makes me wonder if some white hat might (should?) have been behind CodeRed as some 'vaccination' attempt. "The bad news is, nobody will do anything about critical infrastructure protection until there's a global catastrophic failure," said Rasch. The good news is, there will be a global catastrophic failure." -- http://www.nando.net/technology/story/44887p-694372c.html the worse news is: protecting 'critical infrastructure' is far from enough. again from http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red/ This assault also demonstrates that machines operated by home users or small businesses (hosts less likely to be maintained by a professional sysadmin) are integral to the robustness of the global Internet. As is the case with biologically active pathogens, vulnerable hosts can and do put everyone at risk, regardless of the significance of their role in the population. fwiw, caida trying to do gentle survey of patching speed, see http://worm-security-survey.caida.org/ k ps: john maddog hall (linux int'l) had a great slide a few months ago at UCSD talk; upshot something like INSTALLED BASE (EARTH) + 20 million linux systems + 450 million gates licenses ==> 4.4 - 6.6 % of the population total ... world population: ~6B ==> 5.4 billion people haven't selected an OS yet [k: maybe we can get them on OS-antioxidants before it's too late] --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: xtra rejecting mail from mailing lists?
by Tech Support 25 Jul '01

25 Jul '01

>On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Simon Blake wrote: >> I've got a mailing list on one of my servers that appears to have a >> bunch of xtra subscribers on it. Postings to the list get sent to about >> the first 10 xtra users, and then I start getting: >I had someone come up to me with this too. >Apparently when they rang up the helpdesk about it they were told >it wasn't xtra's problem. All I did was suggest they forward the >bounce to postmaster(a)xtra hoping someone does read email there. > >With the 2 examples I saw, it was bouncing emails sent to domains that >were not hosted at xtra. However emails were sent by xtra customers >using xtra's smtp server. One of them tried xtra's smtp server after >they had a problem sending from their own in-house smtp server (thus >eliminating perhaps a possible problem with their server). > >I'll try to get the actual bounce emailed to me. I think it said >something about being unable to relay email > >Lin Hmmm, perhaps Xtra subscribe to ORBS, and have blacklisted their own server..... ;) Peter Gray Telstra Saturn Tech Support E-mail: tech(a)tsnz.net Phone: 0800 949 000 Fax: 04 922 8401 Website: www.netlink.net.nz PO Box 5358, Wellington, New Zealand "Smile," they said "things could be worse!" So I smiled, and things were worse.... --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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'we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck..'
by k claffy 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

david moore's analysis of code red: episode 0/1 is at http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red/ [funded by DARPA's ITO office NGI/NMS programs, NSF ANIR, and CAIDA members, david a caida PI] definitely check out jeff brown's animation at bottom; watch carefully around 15:00 for pretty ominous elbow in infection rate (get an epidemiologist to look at it without telling them what it is...) 360,000 machines (well, IP addresses) infected in under 14 hours. from conclusion: // ..in the final analysis, we should all be uncomfortable with the extent to which luck, rather than proactive diligence, maintains the stability of the Internet infrastructure. // it goes without saying that many hosts are still vulnerable. and will likely remain so (to this or the next poison) until our luck runs out. do we expect the next version to have the two weaknesses christopher pointed out today? do we expect the next version won't clear every 3rd bit on the hard drive? almost makes me wonder if some white hat might (should?) have been behind CodeRed as some 'vaccination' attempt. "The bad news is, nobody will do anything about critical infrastructure protection until there's a global catastrophic failure," said Rasch. The good news is, there will be a global catastrophic failure." -- http://www.nando.net/technology/story/44887p-694372c.html the worse news is: protecting 'critical infrastructure' is far from enough. again from http://www.caida.org/analysis/security/code-red/ This assault also demonstrates that machines operated by home users or small businesses (hosts less likely to be maintained by a professional sysadmin) are integral to the robustness of the global Internet. As is the case with biologically active pathogens, vulnerable hosts can and do put everyone at risk, regardless of the significance of their role in the population. fwiw, caida trying to do gentle survey of patching speed, see http://worm-security-survey.caida.org/ k ps: john maddog hall (linux int'l) had a great slide a few months ago at UCSD talk; upshot something like INSTALLED BASE (EARTH) + 20 million linux systems + 450 million gates licenses ==> 4.4 - 6.6 % of the population total ... world population: ~6B ==> 5.4 billion people haven't selected an OS yet [k: maybe we can get them on OS-antioxidants before it's too late] --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: anything going?
by Simon Lyall 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Matt Camp wrote: > Anyone know of any jobs going for experienced > IP/Cisco/Lucent/Unix/perl/php/database/networky type engineers that > don't suck? > > This ones getting kinda old, (the job, not the engineer) and the pay is > actually decreasing. You could apply at ihug Matt, someone with NT experience would be useful :) Actually does anyone know the best places to find jobs in the industry? , I notice that Telecom and I assume most of the others don't advertise a lot of their jobs online (or on their own websites). ObOperational: www.whitehouse.gov has akamai's themselves. Resume online here. | | V -- Simon J. Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: anything going?
by Donald Neal 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Simon Lyall: >You could apply at ihug Matt, someone with NT experience would be useful :) >Actually does anyone know the best places to find jobs in the industry? , I >notice that Telecom and I assume most of the others don't advertise a lot >of their jobs online (or on their own websites). Telecom's jobs are at http://telecomnz.hire.com/joblist.html, which is linked to from the official web site. Donald Neal (who works for Telecom but generally does not speak for them) -- Donald Neal Mobility & Calling Platforms Network Delivery Telecom New Zealand Ltd --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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anything going?
by Matt Camp 24 Jul '01

24 Jul '01

Anyone know of any jobs going for experienced IP/Cisco/Lucent/Unix/perl/php/database/networky type engineers that don't suck? This ones getting kinda old, (the job, not the engineer) and the pay is actually decreasing. --- Matt Camp Head Geek Mercury/Quicksilver --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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SuSe Linux Mirrors
by Matthew G Brown 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Anyone Mirroring SuSe 7.x ? , 3.0 isn't cutting the mustard :) Matthew G Brown Tasman Solutions LTD --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Blank vendor letter
by Andrea Moran 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks

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Fax to vendor
by Andrea Moran 23 Jul '01

23 Jul '01

Hi! How are you? I send you this file in order to have your advice See you later. Thanks

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