Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Luke S Crawford
goe...@anime.net writes: On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: 1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down botnets, like maps did for spam? sadly no. ... Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal) retaliation by botnet owners? or fear of

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread goemon
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: goe...@anime.net writes: On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: 1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down botnets, like maps did for spam? sadly no. ... Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal)

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Nathan Ward
On 10/08/2009, at 8:11 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: such a list would include all of chinanet and france telecom. it would likely not last long. You've mentioned France twice now. Is there a big botnet problem there? I've never heard of anything like that. I'll admit I don't follow this area

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Aug 10, 2009, at 5:34 AM, Nathan Ward na...@daork.net wrote: On 10/08/2009, at 8:11 PM, goe...@anime.net wrote: such a list would include all of chinanet and france telecom. it would likely not last long. You've mentioned France twice now. Is there a big botnet problem there? I've

RE: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-10 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Why do you think this might be? Fear of (extralegal) retaliation by botnet owners? or fear of getting sued by listed network owners? [TLB:] No more than any anti-spam RBL or is the idea (shunning packets from ISPs that host botnets) fundamentally unsound? [TLB:] That's an ongoing raging

RE: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-08 Thread Frank Bulk
] Sent: Saturday, August 08, 2009 3:15 AM To: Roland Dobbins Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?) Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net writes: On Aug 8, 2009, at 11:57 AM, Luke S Crawford wrote: 2. is there a standard way to push a null-route

Re: Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-08 Thread goemon
On Fri, 8 Aug 2009, Luke S Crawford wrote: 1. are there people who apply pressure to ISPs to get them to shut down botnets, like maps did for spam? sadly no. I've got 50 gigs of packet captures, and have been going through with perl to detect IPs who send me lots of tcp packets with 0

Botnet hunting resources (was: Re: DOS in progress ?)

2009-08-07 Thread Luke S Crawford
Jorge Amodio jmamo...@gmail.com writes: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky. From what I understand, it's quite common. I got hammered last week. It took out some routers at my upstream (it was a tcp syn flood attack, a whole lot

DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread sjk
We are presently seeing some weird FB behavior -- timeouts and retry issues. We've had several reports from our users and just began investigating. Any info you have would be appreciated. --sjk Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Gadi Evron
Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky. DDoS happens hundreds of times a day. Twitter and the Internet operations security community will likely take care of it, especially as it's twitter and we all have a warm fuzzy

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
be appreciated. --sjk Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Cody Appleby
behavior -- timeouts and retry issues. We've had several reports from our users and just began investigating. Any info you have would be appreciated. --sjk Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Rachael Holt
. Any info you have would be appreciated. --sjk Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Ken Gilmour
: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 6, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky. Twitter is very flaky slow to load today, but that is hardly unusual. Do you have any other evidence ? Regards Marshall

RE: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread David Hubbard
From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@americafree.tv] Twitter is very flaky slow to load today, but that is hardly unusual. Do you have any other evidence ? http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/06/twitter.attack/index.html

RE: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Bradley Freeman
http://status.twitter.com/ We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. -Original Message- From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:t...@americafree.tv] Sent: 06 August 2009 16:57 To: Jorge Amodio Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: DOS in progress ? On Aug 6

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
http://status.twitter.com/ We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Perhaps the puddy tat finally got the bird :-)

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Darren
to defend against and recover from this attack. On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: On Aug 6, 2009, at 11:25 AM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Are folks seeing any major DOS in progress ? Twitter seems to be under one and FB is flaky. Twitter is very flaky slow

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Could be interesting if folks @Twitter take pictures or better video about how are they defending against the attack. Do they wear special helmets and cyber pitchforks ?

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Jorge Amodio
FB flakyness could be related to timeout with Twitter APIs Just reported by the birdhouse: As we recover, users will experience some longer load times and slowness. This includes timeouts to API clients. We’re working to get back to 100% as quickly as we can.

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:12:23 CDT, Jorge Amodio said: We are defending against a denial-of-service attack, and will update status again shortly. Could be interesting if folks @Twitter take pictures or better video about how are they defending against the attack. Do they wear special

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Christoph Blecker
It looks like there is something more widespread today. I've noticed a couple other sites having issues. LiveJournal has confirmed they are under attack as well: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/125027.html Cheers, -Christoph Jorge Amodio wrote: FB flakyness could be related to

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Christoph Blecker wrote: It looks like there is something more widespread today. I've noticed a couple other sites having issues. LiveJournal has confirmed they are under attack as well: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_maintenance/125027.html This is

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/technology/internet/07twitter.html Mr. Woodcock said this particular attack consisted of a wave of spam e-mail messages, which began infiltrating Twitter Uh... Yes, well, the gist of my

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:26 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/technology/internet/07twitter.html Mr. Woodcock said this particular attack consisted of a wave of spam e-mail messages, which began infiltrating Twitter

Re: DOS in progress ?

2009-08-06 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, Bill Woodcock wrote: Note that this is a deeply-layered conflict, with both sides trying to pass off actions as those of the other, and I don't know of anyone who's asserted that they have any means of determining whether this was a Georgian attack

Re: Tracking the DNS amplification attacks (was: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-30 Thread Crist Clark
On 1/24/2009 at 4:50 PM, Brian Keefer ch...@smtps.net wrote: Caveat: my PERL is _terrible_. http://www.smtps.net/pub/dns-amp-watch.pl This assumes you're using BIND. My logs roll on the hour, so I run it from cron at 1 minute before the hour. Depending on how long it takes to

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-25 Thread Michael Dillon
I think each point above is true -- BCP38 is indeed a technique, but failure to universally implement it defaults to (almost) a tragedy of the commons. After ~10 years, it is surreal to me that we, as a community, are still grappling with issues where it could be beneficial for the Internet

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-25 Thread a . harrowell
-original message- Subject: Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress) From: Michael Dillon wavetos...@googlemail.com Date: 25/01/2009 10:16 pm I think each point above is true -- BCP38 is indeed a technique, but failure to universally implement it defaults to (almost

RE: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-25 Thread Lorell Hathcock
, 2009 11:06 PM To: Danny McPherson Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress) On Jan 23, 2009, at 8:53 PM, Danny McPherson wrote: You missed one.. Step 4: enable BCP 38 or similar ingress source address spoofing mitigation mechanism on all customer

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-25 Thread David Conrad
Lorell, On Jan 25, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Lorell Hathcock wrote: Every time I see a post like the one below on this list, I can't help but feel like big brother has infiltrated the list. Someone stating the obvious implications of the lack of the Internet operations community to address a

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-24 Thread David Conrad
Jack, On Jan 23, 2009, at 9:34 PM, Jack Bates wrote: David Conrad wrote: Sad fact is that there are zillions of excuses. Unfortunately I suspect the only way we're going to make any progress on this will be for laws to be passed (or lawsuits to be filed) that impose a financial penalty

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-24 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 8c5f1fec-ff51-4ba2-a762-c13bc275e...@virtualized.org, David Conrad writes: It would seem that as ISPs implement DPI and protocol-specific traffic shaping, they damage the arguments that they can make claiming they have common carrier status with the inherent immunities that

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Phil Rosenthal
Just a friendly notice, the attack against 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 seems to have stopped for now. -Phil On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: Graeme Fowler gra...@graemef.net writes: I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after switching on query logging

RE: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Steven Lisson
Hi, I agree with seeing no traffic to/from 66.230.128.15 but am still seeing flows 'from' 66.230.160.1 Regards, Steve -Original Message- From: Phil Rosenthal [mailto:p...@isprime.com] Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 4:12 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: isprime DOS in progress

RE: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Luke Sheldrick
To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: isprime DOS in progress Just a friendly notice, the attack against 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 seems to have stopped for now. -Phil On Jan 22, 2009, at 6:01 AM, Bjørn Mork wrote: Graeme Fowler gra...@graemef.net writes: I've been seeing a lot of noise from

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Chris McDonald
but am still seeing flows 'from' 66.230.160.1 Regards, Steve -Original Message- From: Phil Rosenthal [mailto:p...@isprime.com] Sent: Saturday, 24 January 2009 4:12 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: isprime DOS in progress Just a friendly notice, the attack against

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Nathan Ollerenshaw
On 24/01/2009, at 6:46 AM, Steven Lisson wrote: Hi, I agree with seeing no traffic to/from 66.230.128.15 but am still seeing flows 'from' 66.230.160.1 Regards, Steve Hi Steve, There is at least an iptables rule you can use to drop this specific query, assuming your nameservers run

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 9a251497-e94c-4693-8e89-3fd3acf6d...@stupendous.net, Nathan Ollere nshaw writes: On 24/01/2009, at 6:46 AM, Steven Lisson wrote: Hi, I agree with seeing no traffic to/from 66.230.128.15 but am still seeing flows 'from' 66.230.160.1 Regards, Steve Hi Steve,

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-23 Thread Noel Butler
On Sat, 2009-01-24 at 07:21, Chris McDonald wrote: We [AS3491] null0'd the IP earlier. Rest-of-world encouraged to do the same :/ Wrong approach, they are *innocent* in this as are the new targets. insert into your favourite acl: deny udp host 66.230.160.1 neq 53 any eq 53 deny udp host

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-23 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual security. Because non of us wantsto spend the next two

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-23 Thread Seth Mattinen
Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I respectfully disagree. Network engineers have to keep up with many tasks and preventing DoS/DDoS should be the responsibility of everyone. I see more folks worried about spam than they are actual security. Back to my original question: is there really not a better

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:14 PST, Seth Mattinen said: Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution? Well, we *could* hunt down the perpetrators, pool some $$, and hire 3 or 4 baseball-bat wielding professional explainers to go explain our position to them. Figuring out

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-23 Thread Jamie A Lawrence
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:31 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:33:14 PST, Seth Mattinen said: Back to my original question: is there really not a better solution? Well, we *could* hunt down the perpetrators, pool some $$, and hire 3 or 4 baseball-bat wielding

Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)

2009-01-23 Thread Danny McPherson
On Jan 23, 2009, at 10:06 PM, David Conrad wrote: Sad fact is that there are zillions of excuses. Unfortunately I suspect the only way we're going to make any progress on this will be for laws to be passed (or lawsuits to be filed) that impose a financial penalty on ISPs through which

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-22 Thread Bjørn Mork
Graeme Fowler gra...@graemef.net writes: I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after switching on query logging (and finishing an application of Team Cymru's excellent template) so I decided to DROP traffic from the addresses (with source port != 53) at the hosts in

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Aaron Hopkins
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Phil Rosenthal wrote: This attack has been ongoing on 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 for about 24 hours now, and we are receiving roughly 5Gbit of attack packets from roughly 750,000 hosts. I'm only receiving NS queries for . from spoofed 66.230.128.15 and 66.230.160.1 via

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Harald Koch
Graeme Fowler wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:55 -0600, Todd T. Fries forwarded: I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after switching on query logging (and finishing an application of Team Cymru's excellent template) so I decided to DROP traffic from the addresses

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:27 -0500, Phil Rosenthal wrote: Representing ISPrime here. Well... representing myself and nobody else, so if that stretches my credibility thin so be it. It's somewhat absurd to suggest that we are attacking our own nameservers, I assure you, we didn't spend many