Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Andrews

In message 
, 
Christopher Morrow writes:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Owen DeLong  wrote:
> >
> > On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:22 , Christopher Morrow  
> > wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> In message 
> >>> , 
> >>> Christopher Morrow
> >>> writes:
>  On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  
>  wrote:
> > 4890
> 
>  it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
> >>>
> >>> If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
> >>> IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
> >>> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
> >>> have connections broken due to PMTUD.
> >>
> >> sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"
> >
> > Get a better ISP.
> 
> both of you crack me up.

Setting IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU on a IPv6 socket is a couple of lines of
code in the http server.  Been there, done that.  If you can't do
that then set the interface MTU to 1280.  I repeat there is no
excuse to have connection broken due to PMTU issues.  A compentent
sys admin can work around upstream problems.

Mark
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Owen DeLong  wrote:
>
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:22 , Christopher Morrow  
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews  wrote:
>>>
>>> In message 
>>> , 
>>> Christopher Morrow
>>> writes:
 On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  
 wrote:
> 4890

 it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
>>>
>>> If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
>>> IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
>>> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
>>> have connections broken due to PMTUD.
>>
>> sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"
>
> Get a better ISP.

both of you crack me up.



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Owen DeLong

On Dec 18, 2012, at 12:22 , Christopher Morrow  wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews  wrote:
>> 
>> In message 
>> , 
>> Christopher Morrow
>> writes:
>>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
 4890
>>> 
>>> it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
>> 
>> If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
>> IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
>> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
>> have connections broken due to PMTUD.
> 
> sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"

Get a better ISP.

Owen




Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Andrews

In message 
, 
Christopher Morrow writes:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews  wrote:
> >
> > In message 
> > , 
> > Christopher Morrow
> >  writes:
> >> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  
> >> wrote:
> >> > 4890
> >>
> >> it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
> >
> > If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
> > IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
> > set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
> > have connections broken due to PMTUD.
> 
> sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"

You don't have a ISP then.  You have a fraudster.

Mark
-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Mark Andrews  wrote:
>
> In message 
> , 
> Christopher Morrow
>  writes:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
>> > 4890
>>
>> it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.
>
> If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
> IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
> set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
> have connections broken due to PMTUD.

sure there is! "my isp filters icmp"



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Mark Andrews

In message 
, 
Christopher Morrow
 writes:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
> > 4890
> 
> it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.

If you run a server you should be expecting PTB for both IPv4 and
IPv6.  If you have broken equipement in front of the server you can
set IPV6_USE_MIN_MTU to 1 on IPv6 sockets.  There is no excuse to
have connections broken due to PMTUD.

-- 
Mark Andrews, ISC
1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia
PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
> 4890

it might not be their (eftps.gov's) fault though... but sure.



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim

On 2012-12-18 08:08, Christopher Morrow wrote:

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:

On 2012-12-18 07:52, Christopher Morrow wrote:


see, now we're getting information that FDC/IRS could actually use!
:) This looks like an MTU issue then?



I believe so.


so, a suggestion to eftps.gov/irs/fdc is to simply clamp MSS on their
servers, no?


I might instead suggest a read of RFC 4890. :)



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:02 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
> On 2012-12-18 07:52, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>>
>> see, now we're getting information that FDC/IRS could actually use!
>> :) This looks like an MTU issue then?
>
>
> I believe so.

so, a suggestion to eftps.gov/irs/fdc is to simply clamp MSS on their
servers, no?



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim

On 2012-12-18 07:52, Christopher Morrow wrote:

see, now we're getting information that FDC/IRS could actually use!
:) This looks like an MTU issue then?


I believe so.




Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Darren Pilgrim  wrote:
> On 2012-12-18 07:36, Christopher Morrow wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Morrow
>>
>>> it's probably also fair to point out that ... it seems to be working.
>>> ( and A)
>>
>>
>> so, what's broken?
>
>
> The end-user machines I tested on are behind 6in4 tunnels (MTU 1480). They
> open the TCP connection, but never load a page.  They don't complete the
> HTTPS SSL handshake.  On port 80, they send the HTTP request, but never get
> a response to GET /.

see, now we're getting information that FDC/IRS could actually use! :)
This looks like an MTU issue then?



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Arturo Servin

It works for me (http)

Cannot ping, so maybe they filtered the whole ICMPv6 and you have a MTU
problem. But that is only a guessing.

as

On 18/12/2012 13:36, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Morrow
>  wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow
>>  wrote:
>>> if only some us-gov folks read this mailing list...
>>> maybe someone form NIST could aim the right question to the right
>>> eftps.gov people?
>>> you'd think helping the taxman would be appreciated.
>>>
>>
>> it's probably also fair to point out that ... it seems to be working.
>> ( and A)
> 
> and traceroute/traceroute6 seems to work to the prem...
> 
>  6  cr1.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.1.173)  79.126 ms  71.722 ms  74.646 ms
>  7  cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.28.174)  74.001 ms  74.127 ms  74.198 ms
>  8  cr1.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.1.209)  75.261 ms  75.305 ms  75.405 ms
>  9  cr1.phmaz.ip.att.net (12.122.28.182)  73.070 ms  73.381 ms  73.408 ms
> 10  12.123.206.173 (12.123.206.173)  71.586 ms  70.289 ms  70.048 ms
> 11  12.87.83.6 (12.87.83.6)  71.226 ms  71.290 ms  71.526 ms
> 12  * * *
> 
>  6  2600:803:95f::d (2600:803:95f::d)  4.618 ms  4.951 ms *
>  7  2600:805:51f::12 (2600:805:51f::12)  49.616 ms  49.726 ms  49.672 ms
>  8  2600:805:51f::12 (2600:805:51f::12)  48.548 ms  48.561 ms  48.75 ms
>  9  2620:10f:400e:1::6 (2620:10f:400e:1::6)  50 ms  53.366 ms  50.704 ms
> 10  * * *
> 
> so, what's broken?
> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Dennis Burgess
>>>  wrote:
 I tried to this a month ago, no luck :( i.e. nothing back from them, just 
 goes into no answer e-mail space!

 Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- 
 Second Edition"
  Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
  Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net - Skype: linktechs
  -- Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com - 900Mhz - LTE - 
 3G - 3.65 - TV Whitespace



 -Original Message-
 From: Darren Pilgrim [mailto:na...@bitfreak.org]
 Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:09 AM
 To: nanog@nanog.org
 Subject: www.eftps.gov contact

 The hostname www.eftps.gov has both A and  records, but the site is 
 only reachable via IPv4.  Worse, the IPv6 connectivity is broken in such a 
 way that Firefox and Internet Explorer do not fall back to IPv4.
 Tracing is broken for both protocols.  The 10-net addresss in the IPv4 
 path were cute.

 Calling their technical support was an exercise in futility.  Supposedly 
 they forwarded messages on to the right people; but the site is still 
 broken after over a week's wait.  If someone knows the admins behind the 
 EFTPS website and can forward this to them, the accounting firm for which 
 I work would appreciate it.

 Thanks,





Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Darren Pilgrim

On 2012-12-18 07:36, Christopher Morrow wrote:

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Morrow

it's probably also fair to point out that ... it seems to be working.
( and A)


so, what's broken?


The end-user machines I tested on are behind 6in4 tunnels (MTU 1480). 
They open the TCP connection, but never load a page.  They don't 
complete the HTTPS SSL handshake.  On port 80, they send the HTTP 
request, but never get a response to GET /.




Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Christopher Morrow
 wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow
>  wrote:
>> if only some us-gov folks read this mailing list...
>> maybe someone form NIST could aim the right question to the right
>> eftps.gov people?
>> you'd think helping the taxman would be appreciated.
>>
>
> it's probably also fair to point out that ... it seems to be working.
> ( and A)

and traceroute/traceroute6 seems to work to the prem...

 6  cr1.attga.ip.att.net (12.122.1.173)  79.126 ms  71.722 ms  74.646 ms
 7  cr2.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.28.174)  74.001 ms  74.127 ms  74.198 ms
 8  cr1.dlstx.ip.att.net (12.122.1.209)  75.261 ms  75.305 ms  75.405 ms
 9  cr1.phmaz.ip.att.net (12.122.28.182)  73.070 ms  73.381 ms  73.408 ms
10  12.123.206.173 (12.123.206.173)  71.586 ms  70.289 ms  70.048 ms
11  12.87.83.6 (12.87.83.6)  71.226 ms  71.290 ms  71.526 ms
12  * * *

 6  2600:803:95f::d (2600:803:95f::d)  4.618 ms  4.951 ms *
 7  2600:805:51f::12 (2600:805:51f::12)  49.616 ms  49.726 ms  49.672 ms
 8  2600:805:51f::12 (2600:805:51f::12)  48.548 ms  48.561 ms  48.75 ms
 9  2620:10f:400e:1::6 (2620:10f:400e:1::6)  50 ms  53.366 ms  50.704 ms
10  * * *

so, what's broken?

>> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Dennis Burgess
>>  wrote:
>>> I tried to this a month ago, no luck :( i.e. nothing back from them, just 
>>> goes into no answer e-mail space!
>>>
>>> Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- 
>>> Second Edition"
>>>  Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
>>>  Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net - Skype: linktechs
>>>  -- Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com - 900Mhz - LTE - 
>>> 3G - 3.65 - TV Whitespace
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Darren Pilgrim [mailto:na...@bitfreak.org]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:09 AM
>>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>>> Subject: www.eftps.gov contact
>>>
>>> The hostname www.eftps.gov has both A and  records, but the site is 
>>> only reachable via IPv4.  Worse, the IPv6 connectivity is broken in such a 
>>> way that Firefox and Internet Explorer do not fall back to IPv4.
>>> Tracing is broken for both protocols.  The 10-net addresss in the IPv4 path 
>>> were cute.
>>>
>>> Calling their technical support was an exercise in futility.  Supposedly 
>>> they forwarded messages on to the right people; but the site is still 
>>> broken after over a week's wait.  If someone knows the admins behind the 
>>> EFTPS website and can forward this to them, the accounting firm for which I 
>>> work would appreciate it.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>>



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow
 wrote:
> if only some us-gov folks read this mailing list...
> maybe someone form NIST could aim the right question to the right
> eftps.gov people?
> you'd think helping the taxman would be appreciated.
>

it's probably also fair to point out that ... it seems to be working.
( and A)

> On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Dennis Burgess
>  wrote:
>> I tried to this a month ago, no luck :( i.e. nothing back from them, just 
>> goes into no answer e-mail space!
>>
>> Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second 
>> Edition"
>>  Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
>>  Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net - Skype: linktechs
>>  -- Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com - 900Mhz - LTE - 
>> 3G - 3.65 - TV Whitespace
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Darren Pilgrim [mailto:na...@bitfreak.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:09 AM
>> To: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: www.eftps.gov contact
>>
>> The hostname www.eftps.gov has both A and  records, but the site is only 
>> reachable via IPv4.  Worse, the IPv6 connectivity is broken in such a way 
>> that Firefox and Internet Explorer do not fall back to IPv4.
>> Tracing is broken for both protocols.  The 10-net addresss in the IPv4 path 
>> were cute.
>>
>> Calling their technical support was an exercise in futility.  Supposedly 
>> they forwarded messages on to the right people; but the site is still broken 
>> after over a week's wait.  If someone knows the admins behind the EFTPS 
>> website and can forward this to them, the accounting firm for which I work 
>> would appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>



Re: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
if only some us-gov folks read this mailing list...
maybe someone form NIST could aim the right question to the right
eftps.gov people?
you'd think helping the taxman would be appreciated.

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Dennis Burgess
 wrote:
> I tried to this a month ago, no luck :( i.e. nothing back from them, just 
> goes into no answer e-mail space!
>
> Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second 
> Edition"
>  Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support Services
>  Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net - Skype: linktechs
>  -- Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com - 900Mhz - LTE - 3G 
> - 3.65 - TV Whitespace
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Darren Pilgrim [mailto:na...@bitfreak.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:09 AM
> To: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: www.eftps.gov contact
>
> The hostname www.eftps.gov has both A and  records, but the site is only 
> reachable via IPv4.  Worse, the IPv6 connectivity is broken in such a way 
> that Firefox and Internet Explorer do not fall back to IPv4.
> Tracing is broken for both protocols.  The 10-net addresss in the IPv4 path 
> were cute.
>
> Calling their technical support was an exercise in futility.  Supposedly they 
> forwarded messages on to the right people; but the site is still broken after 
> over a week's wait.  If someone knows the admins behind the EFTPS website and 
> can forward this to them, the accounting firm for which I work would 
> appreciate it.
>
> Thanks,
>
>



RE: www.eftps.gov contact

2012-12-18 Thread Dennis Burgess
I tried to this a month ago, no luck :( i.e. nothing back from them, just goes 
into no answer e-mail space! 

Dennis Burgess, Mikrotik Certified Trainer Author of "Learn RouterOS- Second 
Edition" 
 Link Technologies, Inc -- Mikrotik & WISP Support 
Services   
 
 Office: 314-735-0270 Website: http://www.linktechs.net - Skype: 
linktechs 
 -- Create Wireless Coverage's with www.towercoverage.com - 900Mhz - LTE - 3G - 
3.65 - TV Whitespace  



-Original Message-
From: Darren Pilgrim [mailto:na...@bitfreak.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 9:09 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: www.eftps.gov contact

The hostname www.eftps.gov has both A and  records, but the site is only 
reachable via IPv4.  Worse, the IPv6 connectivity is broken in such a way that 
Firefox and Internet Explorer do not fall back to IPv4. 
Tracing is broken for both protocols.  The 10-net addresss in the IPv4 path 
were cute.

Calling their technical support was an exercise in futility.  Supposedly they 
forwarded messages on to the right people; but the site is still broken after 
over a week's wait.  If someone knows the admins behind the EFTPS website and 
can forward this to them, the accounting firm for which I work would appreciate 
it.

Thanks,