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7 total messages Started by Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
Our reply to David Jones response.
#472
Author: Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
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Long interesting post:
--------------------

Thank you David, we carefully read your post. We want to ask you the 
following questions which we supplemented with traceroutes among other 
things. We also numbered the questions, so as we can follow to which part 
you are answering. We hope that you maintain that in your answers.


> To make this long story short, the TFN talks to a number of machines.
> Bruce may have created entries in the name server database for these 
machines
> for convenience reasons.  However, their true location comes out in a
> traceroute.

Q1- Explain then why there's a gts.torfree.net being referenced to 
gts.net?  It serves no useful purpose for the TFN.

Of course the only purpose this can serve is the other way around, i.e. 
Bruce Becker using this as a gateway to free T1 connection, rather than 
passing through the bottle-ncek of the ISDN connection that is obviously 
paid for according to volume of traffic also.

Q2- If this is not the case, why keep it? 

Q3- How does such a thing benefit the TFN 'mainly'?

bash$ traceroute gts.torfree.net;slt.com;traceroute csas.torfree.net

traceroute to gts.org (192.172.254.6), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 
1  rtcolo.spg.va.erols.net (207.96.1.1)  1.035 ms  0.823 ms  0.806 ms 
2  spg-rtcwix.erols.net (207.172.0.3)  1.954 ms  1.250 ms  1.151 ms 
3  tip-7513-ar1-h8-0.cwix.net (206.142.253.73)  8.022 ms  2.521 ms  3.567 
ms 
4  tip-7513-1-f11-0.cwix.net (207.124.104.97)  4.985 ms  3.487 ms  3.236 
ms 
5  nyd-7513-1-h4-0.cwix.net (207.124.104.50)  8.718 ms  9.335 ms  7.170 
ms 
6  nyd-7513-2-f9-0.cwix.net (206.142.243.130)  12.159 ms  8.456 ms  7.489 
ms 
7  144.228.164.21 (144.228.164.21)  14.781 ms  13.640 ms  11.384 ms 
8  144.228.60.7 (144.228.60.7)  32.155 ms  37.505 ms  35.857 ms 
9  sl-accld-1-S0-T1.sprintlink.net (144.228.67.30)  63.727 ms  52.800 ms  
52.245 ms
10  t3-1.toronto.acc.ca (206.231.247.237)  51.318 ms  45.411 ms  46.893 ms
11  toronto-isdn1.ican.net (206.231.245.194)  50.460 ms  50.186 ms  
51.405 ms
12  frozen.reptiles.org (192.75.253.129)  115.089 ms  203.273 ms  151.100 
ms
13  csas-gw.reptiles.org (192.75.253.140)  90.459 ms  223.844 ms  136.613 
ms
14  ppp-gts.reptiles.org (192.75.253.72)  446.388 ms  223.949 ms  248.576 
ms
15  not.falcon.gts.org (192.172.254.6)  606.049 ms  228.704 ms  274.978 ms

Now here is the trace route for csas.torfree.net (notice that it takes 
you to csas.com directly.

traceroute to csas.com (204.138.66.33), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 
1  rtcolo.spg.va.erols.net (207.96.1.1)  1.019 ms  0.848 ms  0.786 ms 
2  spg-rtcwix.erols.net (207.172.0.3)  1.282 ms  1.419 ms  1.279 ms 
3  tip-7513-ar1-h8-0.cwix.net (206.142.253.73)  4.311 ms  4.171 ms  2.590 
ms 
4  tip-7513-1-f5-0.cwix.net (206.142.240.1)  17.005 ms  3.173 ms  3.234 
ms 
5  nyd-7513-1-h4-0.cwix.net (207.124.104.50)  7.870 ms  7.613 ms  10.277 
ms 
6  nyd-7513-2-f5-0.cwix.net (206.142.243.2)  7.403 ms  11.052 ms  8.485 
ms 
7  144.228.164.21 (144.228.164.21)  14.926 ms  13.123 ms  16.023 ms 
8  144.228.60.7 (144.228.60.7)  20.345 ms  29.986 ms  18.966 ms 
9  sl-accld-1-S0-T1.sprintlink.net (144.228.67.30)  50.172 ms  49.462 ms  
59.588 ms
10  t3-1.toronto.acc.ca (206.231.247.237)  52.581 ms  51.026 ms  49.486 ms
11  toronto-isdn1.ican.net (206.231.245.194)  49.511 ms  46.813 ms  
45.953 ms
12  frozen.reptiles.org (192.75.253.129)  70.224 ms  77.431 ms  285.813 ms
13  csas-gw.reptiles.org (192.75.253.140)  92.975 ms  119.009 ms  121.909 
ms
14  ppp-gts.reptiles.org (192.75.253.72)  302.603 ms  298.387 ms  257.074 
ms
15  csas.com (204.138.66.33)  260.514 ms  218.650 ms  212.382 ms

Q4- And what purpose does referencing csas.torfree.net to csas.com serve 
(_really_)?

The point here is not that some person typing http://csas.torfree.net 
instead of going directly to http://www.csas.com or whatever, it is 
actually in the other way around, that traffic from  csas.com is not 
routed through the torfree.net.

Q5- Can you say - taking in consideration we are not dealing here with an 
average Joe - with confidence that this is not the case? Can you?

> As for ns.gts.net being a nameserver for the TFN: it is good practice 
for
> an organization on the Internet to have backup nameservers and mail
> exchangers to provide more reliability in the case where the TFN's
> network goes down.  Negotiating with other Internet providers for backup

Q6- Do you say that 2 name servers are not enough for TFN? 

Q7- Can you also - with any degree of certainty - claim that having 
another name server - not under our control - cannot be misused to get 
benefits donated to TFN, to 'business' entities?

---------------

DIG hostname->mailexchanger results. 

Click on your browser's <Back> button to return to previous page.


; <<>> DiG 2.2 <<>> gts.torfree.net mx 
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 6
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; Ques: 1, Ans: 3, Auth: 0, Addit: 2
;; QUESTIONS:
;;	gts.torfree.net, type = MX, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
gts.torfree.net.	43200	CNAME	gts.org.
gts.org.	76809	MX	5 mail.gts.org.
gts.org.	76809	MX	10 mail.gts.net.

;; ADDITIONAL RECORDS:
mail.gts.org.	76809	A	192.172.254.6
mail.gts.net.	76809	A	204.138.66.97

Q8 -Now what about this? Does not this inform you that gts.torfree.net is 
actually working as a mail server for GTS?

Q9 - Who is the administrative contact for the TFN? Wouldn't it be nice 
that changes to the Internic registration of the TFN be first approved by 
the board and published in the minutes?

Q10- What would the average TFN user lose by closing down the office web 
site? What does the TFN stands to lose if it was proven that this link is 
being misused?

Now for the more puzzling parts, particularly as the subdomain database 
has been changed to reflect other names since this was published in the 
first place, so it cannot be verified now, except of course by someone 
having the right access to the log files (which I believe you still 
enjoy) to see when and who made these changes, for example for 
gts.torfree.net to now read not.falcon.gts.org). This part is actually a 
proof of misuse to have the the gts.torfree.net act as a name server for 
ns.tls.com (You can of course guess who in the doamin name registration 
is the hostmaster).

Q11- Can you explain why only 100 lines are present in the current hunt 
group for TFN instead of the two hundred that TFN is paying for? Where 
are the other 100 lines? What is the hunt group for them? 

Of course we do not swallow the feeble answer given by you know who, that 
these numbers are not consequential, as actually this is not what we 
understand about hunt groups in telephone lines. Strnage enough also is 
that the next 100 lines are not in service 780-2100 - 780-2199, which 
lead us to conclude - not proof - that the original hunt group was for 
200 (until recently). We may have to use our rights of access to 
information to solve this. 

34 cyber1 (/home/torpub1/fits)% traceroute gts.torfree.net
traceroute to ns.tls.com (192.172.254.6), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  st-roc-1-h0-t3.servtech.net (199.1.22.1)  0 ms  0 ms  0 ms
 2  sl-chi-16-S2/5-T1.sprintlink.net (144.228.156.77)  40 ms  30 ms  30 ms
 3  sl-chi-2-F6/0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.50.2)  20 ms  30 ms  20 ms
 4  sl-pen-17-H1/0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.10.37)  40 ms  40 ms  60 ms
 5  sl-pen-7-F0/0.sprintlink.net (144.228.60.7)  190 ms  230 ms  220 ms
 6  sl-accld-1-S0-T1.sprintlink.net (144.228.67.30)  80 ms  70 ms  70 ms
 7  206.231.247.237 (206.231.247.237)  70 ms  390 ms  80 ms
 8  toronto-isdn1.ican.net (206.231.245.194)  80 ms  80 ms  70 ms
 9  frozen.reptiles.org (192.75.253.129)  100 ms  110 ms  150 ms
10  csas-gw.reptiles.org (192.75.253.140)  170 ms  240 ms  150 ms
11  ppp-gts.reptiles.org (192.75.253.72)  340 ms  240 ms  310 ms
12  ns.tls.com (192.172.254.6)  280 ms  240 ms  290 ms

Q12- Do you claim that I invented this scenario? I know that the 
subdomain name in question is the same one as gts's (Thank you). 

Q13- If you do not claim that, as hopefully you would check the logs - if 
any - of the site(s) to see that this was not changed, then what is your 
explanation for this? 

Q14- What is the advantages of this marriage (/rape) between the TFN and 
CSAS (and/or GTS, Reptiles, tls, etc who are invited to this gang rape)? 

Though we do not object to inter-racial marriages, I still do for 
inter-racial rapes (as well as any rape). The irony is one intity is not 
for profit and is the employer, while the other is for profit and is the 
employee.

Of course your answer must be from the view-point of the 'best interests 
of the TFN' as we know you as one who always had that in mind, but we 
cannot also forget that you are the one who actually contracted CSAS and 
is negotiating there renewal of the contracts.

I think it is a good time for change.

We hope that you would tell what makes your consciousness at rest, as an 
eminenet professional, a TFN volunteer and a TFN Board member. However, 
we have the right also to question your answer and/or publish it to 
hostmasters newsgroups. Please do not under-estimate our resourcefullness 
nor our perserverance.

Nabil M. EL-Khodari
Nathan Richards
-- 
Nabil M. El-Khdari          | Community networking is not an aim in itself,
TFN Member                  | but a means to an end.. The end being community
TFN Information Provider    | revitalization, empowerment and development.
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Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#473
Author: Colin McGregor
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 00:00
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Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari (ad613@torfree.net) wrote:
: Thank you David, we carefully read your post. We want to ask you the 
: following questions which we supplemented with traceroutes among other 
: things. We also numbered the questions, so as we can follow to which part 
: you are answering. We hope that you maintain that in your answers.

The royal we... Nabil has someone made you King, God, or whatever? Or are
you now like what one sees in some science fiction TV shows, a (sub)
normal human being with an alien parasite that controls your actions while
slowly sucking out your brains (well such brains as it can find)? I would
tend to bet on the latter, but I guess the first is possible (for a very
small/very stupid country). 

: Q11- Can you explain why only 100 lines are present in the current hunt 
: group for TFN instead of the two hundred that TFN is paying for? Where 
: are the other 100 lines? What is the hunt group for them? 

As your alieness has already been told there are 191 phone lines in 
service now. The list of numbers above 780-2099 looks like a dogs 
breakfast with jumps, but they are all there.

Tell you what Nabil, for you and you alone, if you wish, I will make a 
copy of the full phone number list as well as phone bills, and make them 
all available for you to examine at your leasure down at the TFN office 
anytime Geoffrey is there. Just give the word.

: Q14- What is the advantages of this marriage (/rape) between the TFN and 
: CSAS (and/or GTS, Reptiles, tls, etc who are invited to this gang rape)? 

Lots of kinky video tapes that we can sell through adult video shops for 
lots of $$$.

: We hope that you would tell what makes your consciousness at rest, as an 
: eminenet professional, a TFN volunteer and a TFN Board member. However, 
: we have the right also to question your answer and/or publish it to 
: hostmasters newsgroups. Please do not under-estimate our resourcefullness 
: nor our perserverance.

Yea David better be carefull after the alien parasite is done with Nabil 
it might come after you (or me...stay back...arrrrgh).

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Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#477
Author: karl mamer
Date: Wed, 14 May 1997 00:00
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ad613@torfree.net (Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari) writes:
> 
> Long interesting post:
> --------------------
> 
> Thank you David, we carefully read your post. We want to ask you the 
> following questions which we supplemented with traceroutes among other 
> things. We also numbered the questions, so as we can follow to which part 
> you are answering. We hope that you maintain that in your answers.

This calls for a reposting of Val's freenet
cabal post:

From: val@io.org (Val Dodge)
Newsgroups: alt.online-service.prodigy,news.admin.policy,
            news.admin.misc,alt.censorship,alt.culture.internet,
            tor.general,alt.activism,can.infohighway
Subject: Re: Controlling posts to Usenet
Date: 24 Mar 1995 01:57:24 -0500

In article , ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat)
wrote:

>       And as for my record it's a little hard
>       to accomplish when everyone who has anything
>       to do with FreeNet also is sitting in all of
>       the Information Services Providers in the
>       city of Toronto. Try getting a cheap or free
>       feed with those odds against you. Can you
>       spell "Cabal" Colin?

Bob, I fully believe that the Toronto Cabal
has become oppressive and even dangerous; they are on the verge of
completely controlling access to information in this city. Think about
it: they set up the Freenet to whet the public's appetite for
net.access, then they make sure that the system is slow enough and has
too few modems so that Joe Shmoe will run right out to one of the ISPs
in town and get a *paying* account. The Freenet is nothing but a
publicly-funded bait-and-switch tactic where the winners are the
Caballeros, and the losers are the people who have to pay inflated
prices because of the lack of meaningful competition.

A freenet of some sort was inevitable in Toronto, and it was in the
Cabal's best interest to control it from the very beginning. Now just
who stands to gain the most if the Toronto Freenet is delayed for over
a year, and then is nearly unusable after it's finally launched? Why
the Cabal, of course. The number of users on Internex and Interlog
alone has more than doubled since the launching of the Freenet in the
autumn, and other ISPs like Passport and Inforamp have seemingly
appeared out of nowhere to take care of the overflow. As if that isn't
damning enough, what about the fact that a considerable portion of
Usenet news is drawn in over the Freenet's (taxpayer-subsidized)
high-speed net link, and then re-distributed on the cheap to the rest
of the Cabal member systems? Is it really a coincidence that the
Freenet serves the local ISPs before its own members? I think not.

The Toronto Freenet will never get a graphical interface or offer basic
access to ftp, telnet, or the Web, because that would adversely affect
business flowing into the Cabal's ISPs. It was deliberately designed to
be as useless and frustrating as possible to use. How are any and all
complaints answered? "If you don't like it here, why don't you pay for
an account on a commercial provider?" seems to be the only entry in the
Freenet's tech-support manual. Sounds like the Freenet "volunteers" get
kickbacks for directing potential customers to local ISPs, doesn't it?

But there's so much more. I discovered the full details of the plan
quite accidentally last month, and four members of the Cabal have
threatened to put me on a local access blacklist if I reveal what I
know. In fact, this article may be my last from a local provider,
assuming that it makes it past the Cabal cancelbots at all. However, I
feel it important that the people in this city know just what the
various conspirators are up to in their attempts to illegally control
the market. To that end, I will be revealing the true extent of the
Cabal Conspiracy in a series of posts over the next few days. I fully
expect to lose my accounts on three of the local Cabal systems as a
result, but I am currently negotiating with an American service to
obtain a low-cost, unfettered account. The Toronto Cabal will be
broken, even if I have to haul my own T1 up from Falls Church, VA to do
it.

--
Val Dodge                |  Tell me no lies, and I'll ask you no
Toronto, Ontario         |  questions.


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Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#478
Author: Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00
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Thank you Karl... If you know the e-mail address or the telephone number 
of Val, please e-mail me at fits@servtech.com. Of course you understand 
why I prefer using non-TFN account.

Most probably your post will be taken to prove that there are many 
paranoid people ;^)  Only the Cabal is sane.

Sincerely,

Cabil (oops)
-- 
Nabil M. El-Khdari          | Community networking is not an aim in itself,
TFN Member                  | but a means to an end.. The end being community
TFN Information Provider    | revitalization, empowerment and development.
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Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#479
Author: Nathan Richards
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00
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Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari (ad613@torfree.net) wrote:
: Thank you Karl... If you know the e-mail address or the telephone number 
: of Val, please e-mail me at fits@servtech.com. Of course you understand 
: why I prefer using non-TFN account.

: Most probably your post will be taken to prove that there are many 
: paranoid people ;^)  Only the Cabal is sane.

: Sincerely,

: Cabil (oops)
I thought it was kabal... ;)
-- 
Nathan D. Richards
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
E-Mail: nathanr@sunspot.org
WWW: http://www.sunspot.org/
Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#480
Author: Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:00
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karl mamer (kamamer//cutthis//@interlog.com) wrote:

: From: val@io.org (Val Dodge)
: Newsgroups: alt.online-service.prodigy,news.admin.policy,
:             news.admin.misc,alt.censorship,alt.culture.internet,
:             tor.general,alt.activism,can.infohighway
: Subject: Re: Controlling posts to Usenet
: Date: 24 Mar 1995 01:57:24 -0500

: Bob, I fully believe that the Toronto Cabal
<snip>

: But there's so much more. I discovered the full details of the plan
: quite accidentally last month, and four members of the Cabal have
: threatened to put me on a local access blacklist if I reveal what I
: know. In fact, this article may be my last from a local provider,
: assuming that it makes it past the Cabal cancelbots at all. However, I
: feel it important that the people in this city know just what the
: various conspirators are up to in their attempts to illegally control
: the market. To that end, I will be revealing the true extent of the
: Cabal Conspiracy in a series of posts over the next few days. I fully
: expect to lose my accounts on three of the local Cabal systems as a
: result, but I am currently negotiating with an American service to
: obtain a low-cost, unfettered account. The Toronto Cabal will be
: broken, even if I have to haul my own T1 up from Falls Church, VA to do
: it.

I cannot contact Dodge Val. I deiscovered that he really had 3 e-mail 
accounts (by searching infossek). These are:

val@vex.net
val@vex.com
val@nudge.io.org

I checked the first two at the internic. Guess who is the sysadmin? Yes, 
something that crawls, not amphibian. If that so, may be the relation 
between the cabal and TFN is better understood.

Thank God, my service provider is actually a US-company. 

-- 
Nabil M. El-Khdari          | Community networking is not an aim in itself,
TFN Member                  | but a means to an end.. The end being community
TFN Information Provider    | revitalization, empowerment and development.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Re: Our reply to David Jones response.
#485
Author: Paul Klimstra
Date: Sat, 17 May 1997 00:00
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Nathan Richards (bm782@torfree.net) wrote:
: Nabil Mohamed El-Khodari (ad613@torfree.net) wrote:
: : Thank you Karl... If you know the e-mail address or the telephone number 
: : of Val, please e-mail me at fits@servtech.com. Of course you understand 
: : why I prefer using non-TFN account.

: : Most probably your post will be taken to prove that there are many 
: : paranoid people ;^)  Only the Cabal is sane.

: : Sincerely,

: : Cabil (oops)

: I thought it was kabal... ;)

Is this about those new Kabal Modems everyone's talking about? 8^P


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