RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Daniel Golding
Well, what's a "peering point"? Most traffic does not traverse public peering points, domestically. So, in order to look at enough traffic to make it worthwhile, the .gov would have to optically tap all the private peering x-connects between major carriers. That is a major endevour, and would sur

kudo's to netops security people

2002-08-15 Thread John M. Brown
since this list bashes on people/orgs for NOT dealing with security matters, I thought I'd be contrary.. Qwest.net, FNSI.net, online-mac all sent swarms of bad packets towards a client lastnite. all where 100 percent responsive in solving / fixing the problem puppies quickly, no hassle, no f

Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread David Lesher
Unnamed Administration sources reported that Daniel Golding said: > > Well, what's a "peering point"? Most traffic does not traverse public > peering points, domestically. So, in order to look at enough traffic to make > it worthwhile, the .gov would have to optically tap all the private peering

Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Gerald
> what's your own NOC's SOP for when the G-men knock on the door at > midnight waving paper & steel? Yes sir, the servers are over there and here's the root password. Oh wait, unless somethings broke or I'm breaking it I'm not at work at midnight. At my last place of employment, we would grant

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-15 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - I have walked about 30 people through the "Do ATM-based Internet Exchange Points make sense anymore?" white paper and have received some really good feedback, suggestions and price points to calibrate the Peering Financial Model. I have applied these calibrations and I am ready to re

LISA: sysadmin conference, take 16.

2002-08-15 Thread Gerald
I got a chance to go to last years LISA for the first time. I had been trying to go for 3 yrs. I have changed companies since then and am now working for a lot smaller company that can't afford to pay for these kinds of things which brings me to my question(s) for the list: How can an individual

Re: kudo's to netops security people

2002-08-15 Thread blitz
Its GOOD to hear one of these once in a whilea hearty "attaboy" to all who did their jobs properly... At 07:28 8/15/02 -0700, you wrote: >since this list bashes on people/orgs for NOT dealing with >security matters, I thought I'd be contrary.. > >Qwest.net, FNSI.net, online-mac > >all sent

ALGX problems?

2002-08-15 Thread Stanley, Jon
Welcome to installment 2 of ALGX leaking routes. If they have any connectivity to speak of by the end of the day, I'd be amazed.

Re: ALGX problems?

2002-08-15 Thread Chris Parker
At 03:00 PM 8/15/2002 -0500, Stanley, Jon wrote: >Welcome to installment 2 of ALGX leaking routes. If they have any >connectivity to speak of by the end of the day, I'd be amazed. Well, it was one of ALGX downstreams leaking to them. Shame on them for not filtering their customer properly

Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

2002-08-15 Thread William B. Norton
Hi all - Thanks for all the feedback and keep it coming ! I'll summarize the 80 or so responses so far. As an aside, I especially liked this paper request: "I'd like to see a copy of your paper - please fragment it into 48 byte chunks." A couple points seem to come up from a bunch of

Re: ALGX problems?

2002-08-15 Thread German Martinez
Chris, On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris Parker wrote: > > At 03:00 PM 8/15/2002 -0500, Stanley, Jon wrote: > > >Welcome to installment 2 of ALGX leaking routes. If they have any > >connectivity to speak of by the end of the day, I'd be amazed. > > Well, it was one of ALGX downstreams leaking to

RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread David Schwartz
>I'm sure that they have all sorts of methods. On the other hand, >cellphones make devilishly difficult "bugs" to eliminate, especially >the ones that are capable of automatically answering the call and >activating the microphone without any audible ring. You can't just >block all cellphones,

wcg.com dead?

2002-08-15 Thread Dan Hollis
Are they dead now? I have been trying to contact them for over two months regarding attacks from one of their customers. They dont return any email or phonecalls. AS7911 is asleep at the wheel now, or on autopilot? -Dan -- [-] Omae no subete no kichi wa ore no mono da. [-]

Re: wcg.com dead?

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 03:49:19PM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > > Are they dead now? > > I have been trying to contact them for over two months regarding attacks > from one of their customers. They dont return any email or phonecalls. > > AS7911 is asleep at the wheel now, or on autopilot? Try

RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 7:10 PM -0700 2002/08/14, Scott Granados wrote: > Actually, yes you do block all cell phones and transmissions in these > facilities. Are you talking about a SCIF -- Secure Compartmented Information Facility? The sort of place where they basically Tempest-shield the entire build

Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 10:37 PM -0400 2002/08/14, David Lesher wrote: > Not at all. > > The entry guard says "No Cell Phones".. and [s]he has the gun. > You can whine and pout but [s]he still has the gun. When I was there, they never searched anyone's purse, bag, or briefcase. So, just leave it inside

Re: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 8:36 PM -0700 2002/08/14, Scott Granados wrote: > Can the nsa for > example listen in somehow to eering points or other such common areas > and observe things that interest them? Yup. Google for "ECHELON" and read the lengt

Re: LISA: sysadmin conference, take 16.

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 12:37 PM -0400 2002/08/15, Gerald wrote: > How can an individual that has passed beyond "student" status afford the > costs of LISA? I'm already a Usenix member in good standing, but even at > those rates, to attend the whole week is quite expensive for an > individual. (It's about equal

RE: $400 million network upgrade for the Pentagon

2002-08-15 Thread Brad Knowles
At 9:52 AM -0400 2002/08/15, Daniel Golding wrote: > Well, what's a "peering point"? Most traffic does not traverse public > peering points, domestically. So, in order to look at enough traffic to make > it worthwhile, the .gov would have to optically tap all the private peering > x-connects

OT: Seeking John {Johnson, Villasenor, Todd}

2002-08-15 Thread Jamie Norwood
If you are one of these famous John's, who helped make Onyx such a resounding success, drop me a line, eh? ;) We now return you to your normally schedualed NANOGing. Jamie

Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Chris Parker wrote: > Well, it was one of ALGX downstreams leaking to them. Shame on them > for not filtering their customer properly. How many times do we have > to learn this lesson? As much as it would be nice if everyone used prefix-lists on their customer BGP session

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Wood) [Fri 16 Aug 2002, 02:16 CEST]: > As much as it would be nice if everyone used prefix-lists on their > customer BGP sessions, but sometimes this is not possible, or cumbersome. > I know from past experience as a transit customer, that I have personally > shyed away f

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Niels Bakker wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Wood) [Fri 16 Aug 2002, 02:16 CEST]: > > As much as it would be nice if everyone used prefix-lists on their > > customer BGP sessions, but sometimes this is not possible, or cumbersome. > > I know from past experience as a trans

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 05:15:04PM -0700, Joe Wood wrote: > > However, I don't really see a reason why ISP's shouldn't implement > max-prefixes on their customer sessions; This would not prevent against > very small prefix leaks, but would prevent partial and whole routing table > leaks that imp

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Wood) [Fri 16 Aug 2002, 02:38 CEST]: >>> I know from past experience as a transit customer, that I have >>> personally shyed away from ISP's that have restricted me to having >>> their NOC update my ACL. >> But instead you prefer a "lazy" NOC, where you need manual interv

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Peter E. Fry
On 15 Aug 2002 at 17:38, Joe Wood wrote: [...] > It's been my experience that a lot of the providers that do prefix > filtering on customer BGP sessions take great amounts of time before they > act on the prefix-filter update request. This much fun when it's 5pm or > later and you really need to

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > If you're using a Cisco, and they leak, their session stays down until a > human clears it. It also does very little to prevent leaking of a single > route (like one of Phil Rosenthal's /24s), impacting someone else. As a > customer, I would al

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Peter E. Fry wrote: > On 15 Aug 2002 at 17:38, Joe Wood wrote: > > It's been my experience that a lot of the providers that do prefix > > filtering on customer BGP sessions take great amounts of time before they > > act on the prefix-filter update request. This much fun when

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Mark Kent
Joe Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: >> However, for ISP's that do NOT use any sort of prefix filters, wouldn't >> you prefer that your BGP session was limited to a number of prefixes, in >> case of a routing leak? We'ld prefer that such ISPs identify themselves here so we can straighten them out

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Niels Bakker wrote: > >> But instead you prefer a "lazy" NOC, where you need manual intervention in > >> case you screw up a filter list on your end to re-enable the BGP session? > > No, instead I prefer to do all route filtering on my (cust) side, and have > > the ISP do fi

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard A Steenbergen) [Fri 16 Aug 2002, 03:01 CEST]: [..] > IMHO AS Path filters are useless and redundant if you have proper > prefix-lists. Did you ever run into that bug in IOS where if you had `ip as-path access-list 1 permit ^(1|2|3)+_$' (where 2 and 3 would be custome

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Wood) [Fri 16 Aug 2002, 03:30 CEST]: > True, but my point is that if ISP is doing filtering based on ^CUST-AS_ > they should be implementing _some_ sort of protection against full table > leaks. Yes, and I'm in violent agreement with that. :-) Apologies if that wasn't

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP (WAS Re: ALGX problems?)

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Mark Kent wrote: > We'ld prefer that such ISPs identify themselves here so we can > straighten them out. Wasn't that your intention when you asked this > question: > > How many of you that currently do not filter your customer BGP > sessions have max-prefixes config

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Jared Mauch
warning: operational content in 12.0(22)S there was a new max-prefix feature added that people running this software (or similar) can enable to shut down your customers who leak routes. Most customers don't advertize 8k prefixes, so a simple setup like this: (config-router)#nei

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:12:00PM -0400, Jared Mauch wrote: > > warning: operational content Thank you Jebus! > in 12.0(22)S there was a new max-prefix feature added that > people running this software (or similar) can enable to shut down > your customers who leak routes. > > Mos

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Joe Wood
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > A better system might be where the session is kept up (or periodically > polled, if you want to make it obvious to the other party that there is a > problem) without installing the routes, and kept in a "quarantine" state > for X amount of time

Re: Max Prefixes Configured on Customer BGP

2002-08-15 Thread Jared Mauch
I believe you are correct as long as you inteligently apply this restart-timer on max-prefix along with your dampening policy. YMMV depending on what your defaults are set for. - Jared On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 09:09:15PM -0700, Joe Wood wrote: > On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Rich

HPOV, Ciscoworks

2002-08-15 Thread Blake Fithen
Can anyone recommend some links/mailing lists/resources for HP Openview and/or Ciscoworks? Thanks, -- blake

Donkey Balls

2002-08-15 Thread Nathan
Hey, In my fraternity we have a tradition of sending "donkey balls" messages to people who leave their email accounts open on other people's machines. Anyhow, just a friendly "Hi, you suck donkey balls!" note from your friend Emily. :-D E

Re: Donkey Balls

2002-08-15 Thread Nathan
Please disregard the previous message (and this one also). A joke which would have been much funnier had the person known that [EMAIL PROTECTED] was not my email address (and therefore sent the email to the correct address) :) Nathan On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Nathan wrote: > > Hey, > In my frater