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---> Internet-Community Meeting <---
at Tweakfest 2010 ( http://www.tweakfest.ch/ )
When?
Saturday 24.4.2010, 14.00-16.00
Where?
Alte Börse in Zurich (Bleicherweg 5), Gallerie
http://alteboerse.com/lageplan.15.html
(Die Gallery is in the Club in the fourth floor, and can be reached
via the spiral stairs on the left. We will put up signs to help you
find the Meeting.)
Why, and what's the goal?
The Federal Institute …
[View More]of Intellectual Property ( http://ige.ch/ )
organizes in May a meeting called "Urheberrechtsgespräch" (rough
translation: "conversation about copyright matters"). They have
invited various interest groups to nominate representatives for
this event.
The "Internet-Community" is one of the interest groups that have
been invited.
As per the invitation, the associations Digitale Allmend
( http://allmend.ch ) and /ch/open ( http://ch-open.ch ) have
designated representatives who shall represent the Internet Community
at that event.
In order to achieve an authentic representation of the Internet
Community, it is of course important that before the event, there
should be a discussion involving as many diverse members of the
Internet Community as possible, so that our representatives will
be able to represent not only their own perspective, but as far as
possible the concerns and interests of the Internet Community as a
whole.
This year, the topic of collection societies and their supervision
will be one focus area of the "Urheberrechtsgespräch", but there will
also be a session for addressing other topics. We really should give
our representatives an authentic first-hand impression of how we see
things. For example, we could formulate a position statement on ACTA,
the so-called "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement", in which the
negotiators want to include a chapter about the Internet.
Are you coming?
Please register for the meeting by email to: siug(a)siug.ch
If you cannot come to the meeting, you are welcome to email
suggestions to siug(a)siug.ch and we'll discuss them at the meeting.
Responsible for the Internet-Community Meeting:
Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG), an Initiative of /ch/open
http://siug.ch/
With best regards
in the name of SIUG
Norbert Bollow
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---> Internet-Community Meeting <---
am Tweakfest 2010 ( http://www.tweakfest.ch/de/ )
Wann?
Samstag 24.4.2010, 14.00-16.00
Wo?
Alte Börse in Zürich (Bleicherweg 5, Zürich), Gallerie
http://alteboerse.com/lageplan.15.html
(Die Gallerie ist oben im vierten Stock im Club über die kleine
Wendeltreppe links zu erreichen. Wir werden das Treffen vor Ort
signalisieren.)
Warum und wozu?
Das Eidgenössische Institut für Geistiges Eigentum ( http://ige.ch/ )
veranstaltet im Mai ein "Urheberrechtsgespräch", zu dem Vertreter der
verschiedenen Interessengruppen eingeladen werden.
Auch die "Internet-Community" ist eine der dazu eingeladenen
Interessengruppen.
Entsprechend der Einladung haben die Vereine Digitale Allmend
( http://allmend.ch ) und /ch/open ( http://ch-open.ch ) Vertreter
bestimmt, die die Internet-Community dort vertreten sollen.
Um eine möglichst authentische Vertretung der Internet-Community zu
erreichen, ist natürlich wichtig, dass zuvor eine möglichst breit
abgestützte Diskussion unter Mitgliedern der "Internet-Community"
stattfinden sollte, damit unsere Vertreter nicht nur ihre eigene
Perspektive, sondern möglichst die Sorgen und Interessen der
Internet-Community insgesamt vertreten können.
Vom IGE her ist vorgesehen, dass es beim "Urheberrechtsgespräch" in
einem ersten Teil um den Themenbereich "kollektive Verwertung und
Aufsicht" (mit "Aufsicht" ist Aufsicht über die Tätigkeit der
Verwertungsgesellschaften gemeint) und dann in einem zweiten Teil
um ein grösseres Themenspektrum gehen soll. Wir sollten unseren
Vertretern unbedingt von der Community her aus erster Hand einen
starken Eindruck mitgeben, wie wir die Dinge sehen. Zum Beispiel
bietet es sich an, eine Position im Hinblick auf ACTA zu formulieren,
das sogenannte "Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement", das ein Kapitel
über das Internet enthalten soll.
Kommst Du auch?
Bitte Anmeldung per Email an: siug(a)siug.ch
Wer nicht zu dem Meeting kommen kann, kann gerne Anregungen in
schriftlicher Form an siug(a)siug.ch senden, diese werden dann am
Meeting diskutiert.
Verantworlich für das Internet-Community Meeting:
Swiss Internet User Group (SIUG), eine Initiative von /ch/open
http://siug.ch/
Mit herzlichen Grüssen
im Namen der SIUG
Norbert Bollow
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This is the fourth of a series of technical status updates intended
to inform a technical audience on progress in signing the root zone
of the DNS.
RESOURCES
Details of the project, including documentation published to date,
can be found at http://www.root-dnssec.org/.
We'd like to hear from you. If you have feedback for us, please
send it to rootsign(a)icann.org.
DOCUMENTATION
The following draft document was recently published:
- Resolver Testing with a DURZ
- TCR - Proposed …
[View More]Approach to Root Key Management
ICANN has begun the process of formally soliciting expressions of
interest for volunteers from the technical community to act as
Trusted Community Representatives. These volunteers will witness
cryptographic key ceremonies and also carry out various important
roles relating to KSK key management. For more information, see:
http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12apr10-en.htm
Expressions of interest can be submitted here:
http://www.root-dnssec.org/tcr/
DEPLOYMENT STATUS
KSR exchanges continue between production platforms at VeriSign
and ICANN.
Build-out of KSK Key Ceremony facilities at ICANN continues, and
both facilities (east- and west-coast USA) are expected to be ready
on schedule.
The incremental deployment of DNSSEC in the Root Zone is being
carried out first by serving a Deliberately Unvalidatable Root Zone
(DURZ), and subsequently by a conventionally signed root zone.
Discussion of the approach can be found in the document "DNSSEC
Deployment for the Root Zone", as well as in the technical presentations
delivered at RIPE, NANOG, IETF and ICANN meetings.
Twelve of the thirteen root servers have now made the transition
to the DURZ. No harmful effects have been identified. Some early
analysis of packet captures from many root servers surrounding each
event was recently presented at the IETF meeting in Anaheim, CA,
USA and can be found with other presentation materials at
<http://www.root-dnssec.org/presentations/>.
PLANNED DEPLOYMENT SCHEDULE
Already completed:
2010-01-27: L starts to serve DURZ
2010-02-10: A starts to serve DURZ
2010-03-03: M, I start to serve DURZ
2010-03-24: D, K, E start to serve DURZ
2010-04-14: B, H, C, G, F start to serve DURZ
To come:
2010-05-05: J starts to serve DURZ
2010-07-01: Distribution of validatable, production, signed root
zone; publication of root zone trust anchor
(Please note that this schedule is tentative and subject to change
based on testing results or other unforeseen factors.)
A more detailed DURZ transition timetable with maintenance windows
can be found in the document "DNSSEC Deployment for the Root Zone",
the most recent draft of which can be found on the project web page
at <http://www.root-dnssec.org/>.
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Hi everyone
To officially talk about the "mail problems on port 25 with swisscom dsl" I would like to give you some (technical) information.
We had several needs to stop spam from our network:
- We're receiving about 30'000-100'000 abuse complaints per month (contains multiple reports per case)
- Mail filtering on our infrastructure (our mail servers) are only catching 20% of all spam sent from swisscom dsl - 80% is sent directly from the customer lines. (source: http://www.maawg.org/port25)
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[View More] About 60% to over 90% of all mails sent over residential customer lines are identified as spam. This is more than 10 millions spam emails per day (~375 terabytes per year)
The impacts are clear:
- Spam generates a quite high amount of cost within Swisscom (money, personal, time, storage, data, etc.)
- Our reputation is getting bad
- We might get listed on blacklists (-> impact on legimite traffic)
- Customers are getting blocked (e.g. in sandbox) and are not happy therefore (most of the customers are not realizing, that they are sending spam, because they are virus-/trojan-infected)
So, what we did and what are we doing?
We currently ran a pilot. The productive rollout which will affect all customers will start this week and will take around 2 months until all customers are migrated. Only (ex-)bluewin customers with dynamic adsl-lines will be affected.
Swisscom has published an official statement on http://www.swisscom.ch/p25 and modifies the error-message sent to the customer which will be more clearer.
The pilot showed very clearly that this countermeasure is very effectful in stopping outgoing spam.
Going to the technical part:
We're running a transparent proxy on port 25 (smtp) which gets communication from any customer to any port 25 (Layer 4 redirect feature).
The proxy is analyzing the email and if it detects that spam has been sent he will reject the connection by issuing an error message to the customer (the mailclient will notice: smtp-error). If the mail is a normal and legitimate email -> no problem: mail will be sent. We will even insert a "received-from:" line in the header. If a bot/trojan is trying to send emails, the customer will not notice. There are no mails beeing stored on the filter server. All decisions are made on-the-fly.
Customers, which are virus-affected are handled by the standard abuse process which we have in place (inform, quarantine in a sandbox, etc.).
The option for layer 4 redirect is activated via radius - so it can be turned off on request and the customer just has to reconnect.
For dynamic customers the option will be activated by default.
Customers are asked to authenticate their smtp session and use the mail submission port 587 (not filtered).
So, will this affect non-smtp traffic on port 25? Unfortunately, yes. This traffic will be lost. If the customer has a need to use port 25 for other purposes than email he can request turning of the redirecting feature.
If a customer usses SSL via port 25 does it work? No, it will be dropped.
Customers are kindly requested to use port 465 instead.
If a customer uses smtp auth via port 25, will this work? He will receive a smtp error like "sorry, smtp auth not possible. use 587" (error 573).
Will we start to block completely port 25 in the future? No, absolutely not.
So, I hope things are now getting clearer ,-)
Greetings
-steven
Steven Glogger
___________________________________________________________________________
Cisco CCIE#23778
Network Engineer
Telefon +41 44 294 58 41
Mobile +41 79 277 92 35
Fax +41 86 079 277 92 35
steven.glogger(a)swisscom.com
___________________________________________________________________________
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG
Network & IT
Network Engineering & Operations
Binzring 17
CH-8045 Zürich
www.swisscom.com
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Colleagues,
ICANN and VeriSign, with the support of the US Department of Commerce, continue to work towards DNSSEC deployment in the root zone of the DNS. ICANN is looking for Trusted Community Representatives (TCRs) to help us carry out various technical security operations.
An announcement can be found here: <http://www.icann.org/en/announcements/announcement-12apr10-en.htm>
You can submit an expression of interest here: <http://www.root-dnssec.org/tcr/>
DNSSEC key ceremonies …
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Regards,
Joe
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Dear AS6730-MNT,
Currently SWISSLOS-NET (www.swisslos.ch) is not globally reachable
cause of a missing RPLS route object. Even the DE-CIX looking glass has
no entry (1).
inetnum: 91.213.227.0 - 91.213.227.255
netname: SWISSLOS-NET
descr: Swisslos Interkantonale Landeslotterie
country: CH
org: ORG-SIL15-RIPE
admin-c: MT8036-RIPE
tech-c: MT8036-RIPE
status: ASSIGNED PI
mnt-by: RIPE-NCC-END-MNT
mnt-lower: RIPE-NCC-END-MNT
…
[View More]mnt-by: AS6730-MNT
mnt-routes: AS6730-MNT
mnt-domains: AS6730-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
It might work in your network if you or your upstream don't filter the
bgp updates with RPLS.
Regards
Erich
(1)
http://www.de-cix.de/content/network/looking_glass.html
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Gmail
by Andreas Weiler - Kabelfernsehen Boedeli AG
12 Apr '10
12 Apr '10
Can a Gmail (google) techie contact me offlist please? I got a
question about the Sunrise spam protection.
Thank you,
Andreas
hi everybody
here's the announcement for the next beer event.
the facts for the next event:
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Date: 12th of April 2010
Time: starting around 18.30 o'clock
Location: @ the "Mama Africa" nearby Cinema Abaton
http://www.mamaafrica.ch
Registration deadline: 10.04.2010 15:00:00 (Saturday)
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Please register here: http://swinog.mrmouse.ch/ since we have to make
reservations, i need to know who's coming and who not. If you cannot
attend and you're …
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-steven
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Dear List,
I am getting rid of a (dinosaur) Cisco switch gear. It is a Cisco 5505
chassis and features the following top-notch, future-proof duly recognized
forefront technologies parts:
2 x Power supply WS-C5008B
1 x Supervisor Engine II MMF
4 x 10/100 WS-X5234-RJ45
The box is just about to fossilize in the dust under my desk. Now seriously,
this switch will start-up and work. I have no clue what version of IOS it is
running. I bet about a ~ 5 years old. The box is quite in a good shape (no
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If that is of any use for someone just drop me a line and I will be happy to
hand it over next time I am passing by in your region. Otherwise it will go
straight to the dustbin.
Gregory
*NB: that is not an april fool.*
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