Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
is any active working group persuing this matter seriously? -rgds Alok - Original Message - From: alok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:26 AM Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks The first, dropping broadcasts destined

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread bmanning
yes. this is a topic of active discussion within the RSSAC. is any active working group persuing this matter seriously? -rgds Alok - Original Message - From: alok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bligh
- a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this to BGP learnt networks..at least those are complete networks, not subnetted ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more specific BGP routes from now I am assuming you mean 'mark /32's

Re: ISDN tip wanted

2002-11-04 Thread John L Lee
Andre' From your protocol decode: Your unrestricted 64k Bchannel call connected on B1. It would appear that your network connection was ok. I would check the configuration on each end of the link since your interface went to the up state. and after it went to up it had an invalid call

Re: who are the root server operators?

2002-11-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:32:06 EST, Joe Baptista said: If the roots are once again under attack - how will the root server operators be contacted by a frustrated isp who can't resolve. The chances of a frustrated isp being unable to resolve things during a DDoS attack and the root operators not

Alternative in Web Hosting ?

2002-11-04 Thread Gawie Marais (Home)
I know that this list would not quite cover my topic, but please excuse me... We are a small ISP company based in South Africa and I am looking at alternative ISP's in several other countries around the world to provide our clients with International hosting solutions for their customer base

Re: BGP security in practice

2002-11-04 Thread alex
I didn't say that MD5 would solve the configuration problems, but that the fact that just mis-configuration errors can cause lots of damage should clue people into the fact that the protocol has vulnerabilities to deliberate attack. Every protocol is vulnerable if the principals are

Re: who are the root server operators?

2002-11-04 Thread Paul Vixie
If the roots are once again under attack - how will the root server operators be contacted by a frustrated isp who can't resolve. as valdis points out, 12 operators getting e-mail from 12,000 frustrated isp's is probably not the best way to do this kind of notification. as to who the root

Re: BGP security in practice

2002-11-04 Thread Eric Anderson
Yes, but... A protocol in which principal A's misconfiguration can seriously harm principle B is more broken than one in which it cannot. That's why the protocol for crossing a busy street includes In addition to the light status, look for actual moving vehicles. That way, you don't get run

Re: Alternative in Web Hosting ?

2002-11-04 Thread Allan Liska
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Gawie, Monday, November 4, 2002, 1:08:25 PM, you wrote: GMH Could someone suggest alternative ISP's where we could host our client's GMH existing web sites (as a mirror) ? Your best bet is to pose this question to the ISP-Webhosting list:

point-click consulting or gblx

2002-11-04 Thread Scott Granados
Can someone from point-click consulting andor globalcrossing contact me off list please. Thanks Scott

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
Hi, { this is one snappy mailing list :o) }.. I meant, where can I find the people bouncing ideas on this topic -rgds Alok - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: David Conrad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; alok [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: BGP security in practice

2002-11-04 Thread Vadim Antonov
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Eric Anderson wrote: Time for a new metaphor, methinks. There's one. Defensive networking :) --vadim

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
- a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this to BGP learnt networks..at least those are complete networks, not subnetted ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more specific BGP routes from now I am assuming you mean 'mark

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 03:44:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therefore, would it be a reasonable suggestion to ask router vendors to source address filtering in as an option[1] on the interface and then move it to being the default setting[2] after a period of time? Cannot be

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RPF checking can only go so far. You would need RPF checking down to the host level and I haven't heard anyone discuss that yet. Is this a reason not to do what we can now? -Hank Let's start with getting it going in the right direction, at

Re: Port 137 scans

2002-11-04 Thread Mike Jackson
On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 23:28, blitz wrote: Seeing a ton of them mostly from South America rite now. Yes, we are seeing a lot of udp/137 scanning activity also. -- Mike Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] TSCNet

Re: Port 137 scans

2002-11-04 Thread michael
I have been seeing quite alot from CN over the last several days. On 4 Nov 2002, Mike Jackson wrote: On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 23:28, blitz wrote: Seeing a ton of them mostly from South America rite now. Yes, we are seeing a lot of udp/137 scanning activity also.

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Charles D Hammonds wrote: analogy games are fun, but it boils down to this... If I know the real source of an attack, I can stop it within minutes. I'm sure that my customers appreciate that fact. Noone will ever completely stop attacks, the point is to minimize

Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. I'm in favor of source address filtering at the edges. I'm opposed

Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE NOTE* This is an important Informational Message to the internet community: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. The change will be reflected in zone serial #

Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *PLEASE NOTE* This is an important Informational Message to the internet community: November 5, 2002, the IP address for J.root-servers.net will change in the authoritative NS set for dot. The change will be reflected in zone serial #

RE: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread John Crain
Please note that ftp.internic.net:/doamin/named.root Should read ftp.internic.net:/domain/named.root Both will work though. Sorry about that.. Not enough coffee today. JC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog;merit.edu] On Behalf Of John Crain Sent:

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Daniel Senie
At 06:18 PM 11/4/2002, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. I'm in favor of source

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, John Crain wrote: This WILL require a change to your root hints file. The new [...] Both the new and old j.root-servers.net IP space will provide answers in parallel for the foreseeable future. Since its been 5 years since the hints/cache boot file has changed, it may be

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread bdragon
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the other large isps? What would it take for you to do something? Chris is gracious enough to show up and participate, at least even if it does mean he has to wear nomex. I'm in favor of source address filtering at the edges. Here

IP Address Allocations

2002-11-04 Thread Gawie Marais (Home)
Hi, Is there a site on the Internet that actually has a up-to-date list of all IP subnet allocations that will show me who actually owns the IP range ? Gawie J Marais Technical Member inX - Internet eXchange SA Tel: +27 11 956 6935 Fax: +27 11 956 6851 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web:

IP Address Allocations in Germany

2002-11-04 Thread Gawie Marais (Home)
Hi, This is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone can help me out here... I was wondering if it would be possible to purchase an entire Class C address range for use in Germany. I have a Infrastructure company based in south africa that is looking to connect some 80 sites throughout Germany onto

Re: IP Address Allocations

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
depends which RIR its assigned to... radb is a good place to get all entries tho www.iana.org www.ripe.net www.arin.net www.apnic.net www.radb.net On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Gawie Marais (Home) wrote: Hi, Is there a site on the Internet that actually has a up-to-date list of all IP subnet

Re: IP Address Allocations in Germany

2002-11-04 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Speak to whatever ISP you intend to connect them into in Germany and they can assign you IPs to your requirement providing you can justify it. Steve On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, Gawie Marais (Home) wrote: Hi, This is a long shot, but I'm hoping someone can help me out here... I was wondering

Re: IP Address Allocations in Germany

2002-11-04 Thread Nipper, Arnold
Gawie, what do you mean by ... onto the Internet? If you just want to enable each site with Internet go for http://www.ripe.net/ripencc/mem-services/general/indices/DE.html and pick one (or more) of the ISPs offering services in Germany. Otherwise pls explain in more detail. Regards, Arnold

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread Matt Buford
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only equipment I'm heard here which has serious issues related to feature availability is the 12000 (which was never a particularly good aggregation device to begin with). RPF works fine on 7200, 7500, and 6500, from my experience. I've not used

Re: IP Address Allocations in Germany

2002-11-04 Thread Randy Bush
I was wondering if it would be possible to purchase an entire Class C address range for use in Germany http://ripe.net randy

don't panic Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread john
I believe that updating your hints file is a good idea, but your internet isn't going to die if you don't do it right away. BIND and other decent reslovers will always load the current copy of the Root Zone from any reachable root server. That data will take precidence over the data in the

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-11-04 Thread alok
I'm opposed to some of the suggestions where to put source address filters, especially placing them in non-edge locations. E.g. requiring address filters at US border crossings is a *bad* idea, worthy of an official visit from the bad idea fairy. What is bad about filtering facing

Peerings

2002-11-04 Thread Petri Helenius
Is there a standardized depository of information where lists of which AS´s are present in which exchange(s)? RADB does not really cut it since it only lists the participants of the interconnect, not really identifying the facility. Obviously I´m aware that most IXn list their participants on a

Re: Important Informational Message - root.zone change

2002-11-04 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
At 12:59 AM 11/5/2002, Sean Donelan wrote: Since its been 5 years since the hints/cache boot file has changed, it may be useful to remind people an immediate change to your local configuration files is not required. You don't need to slashdot internic.net tomorrow morning trying to download the

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet?

2002-11-04 Thread Martin
$author = alok ; makes sense on the edge/aggregation but if you do it further up in the network.there maybe some cases where we have assymetric routing, where the path of uplink is never the path the same as the downlink hence the suggestion of reachable-via any rather then route to

Re: Where is the edge of the Internet?

2002-11-04 Thread alok
Hi see inline :o), - Original Message - From: Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 12:59 PM Subject: Re: Where is the edge of the Internet? $author = alok ; makes sense on the edge/aggregation but if you do it further up in the