NANOG 82 recap summary

The NANOG 82 meeting took place earlier this week. It was approximately five hours of content each day for three days. Slide decks for all the talks are on the meeting page already and the videos are due to appear next week on the TeamNANOG YouTube channel. This is a very brief, likely imperfect summary of the technical talks from the meeting. Day 1 Evolution of Network Automation at Roblox Read more...

ICANN DNS Symposium (IDS) 2021 recap summary

The ICANN DNS Symposium concluded today. It was about 3 hours of talks for the past 3 days. Four talks each day. For me it started at 5:00 am and I didn’t always make it on time and I left early a couple of times. This is a very brief summary since I didn’t take very detailed notes and the presentations are not yet online to review. Materials should appear on the IDS page in due time. Read more...

TELNET login feed

The DataPlane.org telnetlogin feed is now publicly available. It looks much like other feeds with the usual set of entry attributes: an IPv4 or IPv6 address, associated route origin information (ASN and AS name), the most recent time stamp of the event in the past 7 days, and the feed name. This feed is derived from TELNET sensors that mimic, but do not implement an actual TELNET server service. The telnetlogin feed reports on clients sending login and password credentials after a TCP port 23 connection to a sensor in the wild. Read more...

SMTP greet and data feeds

The DataPlane.org smtpgreet and smtpdata feeds are now publicly available. Both look much like other feeds with the usual set of entry attributes: an IPv4 or IPv6 address, associated route origin information (ASN and AS name), the most recent time stamp of the event in the past 7 days, and the feed name. The distinction between the two feeds is the extent of SMTP client behavior observed. Both feeds are derived from SMTP sensors that are neither advertised nor intended to be used for any actual delivery of legitimate email. Read more...