Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-okt-2007, at 19:50, Sam Hartman wrote: This is annoying because glibc's source address selection algorithm seems to prefer teredo addresses to v4 addresses. So, I get really bad response times to www.ietf.org when using teredo. It would help if vendors implemented the RFC 3484 policy

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Danny McPherson
On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Note that in real deployments just this behavior has broken things on occasion, as many firewall and other such policy application points assume things like DNS resolution will only be UDP/53 transactions. That assumption has always

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Danny McPherson
On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I'm not blaming the victim, I'm pointing out the contributory negligence on behalf of the ISP that is supplying the attacker bandwidth. BCP 38 is over 7 years old now. The time has past where you can

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Andrews
On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:24 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Note that in real deployments just this behavior has broken things on occasion, as many firewall and other such policy application =20 points assume things like DNS resolution will only be UDP/53 transactions. That assumption

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Danny McPherson
On Oct 2, 2007, at 1:41 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Someone should talk to ucdavis.edu and get this idiocy pulled. And NIST, and many many others.. Because there are lots of recursive and authoritative nameservers out there behind firewalls that get it right.

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Mark Andrews
On Oct 1, 2007, at 8:55 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I'm not blaming the victim, I'm pointing out the contributory negligence on behalf of the ISP that is supplying the attacker bandwidth. BCP 38 is over 7 years old now. The time has past where you can blame the

RE: [secdir] draft-aboba-sg-experiment-02.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Tobias Gondrom
Hi Lakshminath, your comments solve my concerns, mostly. I understand your reasons and actually am not sure I have a really better idea. So please consider my comments rather as personal concerns, not comments that need to be resolved: #2: I still do not feel 100% comfortable with the fact

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread philemon
Hi All Just an input about the NAT issue handled here. The 'war' against NAT is senseless before succeeding the one against IPv4. I mean, as far as the v4 protocol runs on our networks, NAT will remain as a useful tool for those who need it, of course for specific applications. In

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread John Kristoff
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:48:36 -0600 Danny McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, any pointers empirical data along these lines would be appreciated. I said this awhile back: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/msg02196.html As a datapoint I ran some tests against a reasonably

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. All one has to do is apply for them from the RIR. Getting a service provider to route them is a different problem, especially when they profit from running your traffic through their NAT. Ray -Original Message-

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Keith Moore
Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been made on the ietf list. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2-okt-2007, at 15:05, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been made on the ietf list. Yellow herring? There are five RIRs that serve different

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. that has to rank as one of the most bizarre statements that's ever been made on the ietf list. More of an ostrich than a herring? .==._

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
Head in the sand is substituting the statement shortage of IP addresses for the condition of the inability to use the addresses (take your pick when it comes to infrastructure deficiencies). Ray -Original Message- From: Tim Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02,

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ray Plzak
should have been is -Original Message- From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 9:06 AM To: Ray Plzak Cc: philemon; Hannes Tschofenig; Stephen Sprunk; ietf@ietf.org; Paul Hoffman Subject: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition Ray Plzak wrote: The

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-diffserv-class-aggr (Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes) to Informational RFC

2007-10-02 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group WG (tsvwg) to consider the following document: - 'Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes ' draft-ietf-tsvwg-diffserv-class-aggr-04.txt as an Informational RFC DiffServ Pool 1

Re: [Tsvwg] Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-diffserv-class-aggr (Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes) to Informational RFC

2007-10-02 Thread ken carlberg
On Oct 2, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: It is not clear that consensus in the IETF and deployments is strong enough to approve/recommend any specific treatment for standards track DSCP values. could you expand on this observation? -ken

RE: AI_SECURE_CANONNAME, AI_CANONNAME_SEARCH_* (Re: getaddrinfo()and searching)

2007-10-02 Thread Gorsic, Bonnie L
It seems that policy should be scenario / use case / mission dependent, and consequently apply to a number of applications. (And thus be application independent). Bonnie L. Gorsic Technical Fellow SoS Architecture Engineering 714-762-4906 (desk) -Original Message- From: Keith Moore

Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-02 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Le Monday 01 October 2007 20:50:00 ext Sam Hartman, vous avez écrit: Hi. I opened a ticket with the secretariat a few weeks ago complaining that I cannot reach www.ietf.org using a teredo address either allocated through the Microsoft Teredo server or the Debian teredo server. This

Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil-04.txt

2007-10-02 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Danny McPherson [EMAIL PROTECTED] where's the authoritative source for who owns what prefixes This, one could imagining putting together. and who's permitted to originate/transit what prefixes? This is a whole different kettle of bits. For one thing, there's no

Re: [DNSOP] Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-dnsop-reflectors-are-evil (Preventing Use of Recursive Nameservers in Reflector Attacks) to BCP

2007-10-02 Thread Sam Hartman
Joao == Joao Damas [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joao It does indeed as Stephane pointed out. Opening up your Joao resolver so you can server roaming users, without further Joao protection, is, at best, naive. I'd appreciate it if you took Paul's comments a lot more seriously and

Re: AI_SECURE_CANONNAME, AI_CANONNAME_SEARCH_* (Re: getaddrinfo()and searching)

2007-10-02 Thread Keith Moore
Gorsic, Bonnie L wrote: It seems that policy should be scenario / use case / mission dependent, and consequently apply to a number of applications. (And thus be application independent). it's normal for policy to be different from one application to another. some applications are

Re: AI_SECURE_CANONNAME, AI_CANONNAME_SEARCH_* (Re: getaddrinfo() and searching)

2007-10-02 Thread Nicolas Williams
do not try to implement policy into applications. you will end up forced to (?) rewrite every existing applications. I would expect most applications to use only AI_SECURE_CANONNAME or AI_CANONNAME_SEARCH_DEFAULT. AI_CANONNAME_SEARCH_DEFAULT would come with a system-wide knob

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray, I don't think it's quite fair to refer to ostriches when ARIN is already on record: http://www.arin.net/v6/v6-resolution.html Also, for those who like to see things in real time, there's always http://penrose.uk6x.com/ Regards Brian Carpenter University of Auckland On 2007-10-03

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-diffserv-class-aggr (Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes) to Informational RFC

2007-10-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pekka, [FYI I've already indicated my support for this draft in a message sent to the IESG.] On 2007-10-03 03:11, Pekka Savola wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group WG (tsvwg) to consider the following document: -

Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Russ Housley
The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. This would mean that a legitimate user of a list that uses TDMA would get a TDMA query once a year if they are

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 6:49 PM -0400 10/2/07, Russ Housley wrote: 1025 mail addresses have confirmed their address. I would bet that at least 20% of the confirmed are spam addresses (or autoconfirmed addresses) Thoughts? How was that 20% number guessed at?. If 200 spammers (or even 20!) were on the TDMA list,

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 18:49, Russ Housley wrote: The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. This would mean that a legitimate user of a list that

RE: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Sounds reasonable to me. Tdma for personal email protection is rude and unacceptable. For mailing lists it is entirely acceptable. Cost far outweighs benefit as the inconvenience to the single sender is much less than the benefit to the community. Should also consider if spf or dkim checks

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 6:49 PM -0400 10/2/07, Russ Housley wrote: 1025 mail addresses have confirmed their address. I would bet that at least 20% of the confirmed are spam addresses (or autoconfirmed addresses) Thoughts? How was that 20% number guessed at?. If 200 spammers (or even 20!)

Re: Random addresses answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread John Levine
The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. Isn't there an engineering principle that if something is broken, you don't fix it by breaking it even worse?

Re: Random addresses answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas Otis
On Oct 2, 2007, at 6:14 PM, John Levine wrote: The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. Isn't there an engineering principle that if something is

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-10-03 11:49, Russ Housley wrote: The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. This would mean that a legitimate user of a list that uses TDMA would

Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Ruri Hiromi
dedicate to ostriches... http://www.apple.com/en/downloads/dashboard/networking_security/ ipv420.html On 2007/10/02, at 22:32, Tim Chown wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 09:05:39AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red

Re: Random addresses answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread John L
IESG list. The chain: Spamassassin - TMDA - mailman moderation basically does the job just fine. Oh, I hadn't realized that Spamassassin was in front. Yes, that should help a lot, since I expect that the contents of legit mail to IETF lists is rather unlike the contents of most spam. On

Re: Random addresses answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-10-03 14:14, John Levine wrote: The Secretariat tells me that Spammers are responding to TDMA queries so that their mail goes through. They have made the suggestion that we clear the list of people once per year. Isn't there an engineering principle that if something is broken, you

RE: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-10-02 Thread Michel Py
Ray Plzak wrote: The shortage of IPv4 addresses in developing countries in a red herring. All one has to do is apply for them from the RIR. Getting a service provider to route them is a different problem, especially when they profit from running your traffic through their NAT. ..or