[80401] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Apr 29 22:12:03 2005
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 07:41:34 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: North American Networking and Offtopic Gripes List <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050429192736.GH18594@hesketh.com>
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On 4/30/05, Steven Champeon <schampeo@hesketh.com> wrote:
> ANantes-106-1-5-107.w193-251.abo.wanadoo.fr
>=20
> You'll see 'abo' for 'cable', perhaps? as well as 'cable'. But for most
abo =3D short for "abonnement", that is, "subscription" / "subscriber"
Just means its a pool of IPs assigned to users, I guess.
> Dunno. Don't have many examples of those, as I block most traffic from
> there, and what I didn't block didn't often have rDNS anyway. The one
> net.cn example I have, nova, named all of their rDNS with
> user.nova.net.cn - yep, that's it - what every host is named.
And there's a vietnamese ISP that was clever enough to give the same
rDNS - "localhost" - to all their IP space. Don't know which one of
the three ISPs there does this, but as APNIC 20 is in Hanoi, I'll most
likely find that out for myself.
> FPT Viet Nam uses 'adsl-pool-xxx', 'adsl-fix-xxx', and 'dialup-xxx' (yes,
> the x's are part of the actual name, not a placeholder for the numbers).
So its not FPT Vietnam, but one of the two other ISPs there
> 'bredband'. The Japanese use 'flets' and 'ftth', the Dutch and others
ftth =3D fiber to the home. flets is also some kind of fiber.
--srs
--=20
Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists@gmail.com)
