Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My favorite: ntp-1.vt.edu is portscanning me very slowly with source port 123 The really sad ones are the ones who 3 days earlier dropped me a note to tell me they'll using our NTP server. Due to the propensity of people to configure NTP

Re: Security v. Privacy (was Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?)

2003-10-06 Thread Matthew Sullivan
Sean Donelan wrote: The difference being campus machines are null routed rather than disconnected, and they are not reconnected until checked and clean. And once again, the question: how do you know the machines have been checked and cleaned before they are reconnected? Do you take the

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Paul
I would agree that for some application protocols this would be useful++. Letting layer 7 generate layer 3 responses though is, imvho, a bad idea (tm) from an architectural perspective. Beyond that, in Linux (and I would imagine a few other OSes) ICMP is in-kernel, which lowers the practicability

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 02:11:22 EDT, Sean Donelan said: to the client. A compliant client will cease further transmission and send a message to the system log. See the Authentication Options page for further information. ntp-2.vt.edu used to be an alias for my workstation, until it got

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Galbavy
Sean Donelan wrote: Should other protocols include the same feature? If someone sends you a Dynamic DNS update, could the protocol include a kiss-o'-death packet to tell clients to go away? If someone keeps probing your HTTP server, should HTTP include a kiss-o'-death packet to tell

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with a 'kiss-o-death' packet is that it needs to be authenticated. Otherwise, you can use spoofed packets to DoS somebody. How many lines are in your root-DNS hints? And even if we insist on the KoD packet having the query ID in it,

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected, VeriSign's Galvin said. This means that there are no papers published or conference presentations which detail the problems caused by sitefinder. A

Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

2003-10-06 Thread Joel Rowbottom
At 23:40 05/10/2003, Niels Bakker wrote: do arbitrary changes to them. Marking com and net as delegation-only is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.) According to this mail: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html ... apparently it breaks

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 06.10 10:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no data to indicate the core operation of the domain name system or the stability of the Internet has been adversely affected, VeriSign's Galvin said. This means that there are no papers published or conference presentations

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Galbavy
Sean Donelan wrote: Uhm, you are also aware that if the attacker can spoof the kiss-o'-death packets; the same attacker could spoof all sorts of other packets including the time protocol packets to change the clock on your computer. Yes but... there is a strong likelyhood that less paranoid

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread E.B. Dreger
PG Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 11:45:11 +0100 PG From: Peter Galbavy PG Yes but... there is a strong likelyhood that less paranoid PG protocol implementors (not necessarily designers, just those PG coding stuff from spec) could simplify their lives and not PG check all the right conditions required

Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

2003-10-06 Thread Piotr KUCHARSKI
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:40:42AM +0200, Niels Bakker wrote: do arbitrary changes to them. Marking com and net as delegation-only is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.) According to this mail: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html

cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Ezequiel Carson
hi, can anyone use cisco site? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet www.cisco.com 80 Trying 198.133.219.25... Connected to www.cisco.com. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ezequiel.

RE: [nanog]: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Tomas Daniska
the same here -- deejay -Original Message- From: Ezequiel Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 6. októbra 2003 17:23 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [nanog]: cisco site down? hi, can anyone use cisco site? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet www.cisco.com 80

RE: [nanog]: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Ezequiel Carson
it seems to be working now. uhmm strange.. it was getting Document contains no valid data.. something like this. ezeq, On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:25, Tomas Daniska wrote: the same here -- deejay -Original Message- From: Ezequiel Carson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Todd Mitchell - lists
| Ezequiel Carson | Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:23 AM | hi, | can anyone use cisco site? | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet www.cisco.com 80 | Trying 198.133.219.25... | Connected to www.cisco.com. | Escape character is '^]'. | Connection closed by foreign host. | [EMAIL

Re: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Martin Hepworth
Ezequiel Carson wrote: hi, can anyone use cisco site? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet www.cisco.com 80 Trying 198.133.219.25... Connected to www.cisco.com. Escape character is '^]'. Connection closed by foreign host. [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# ezequiel. doesn't work from UK either...

RE: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Wim De Houwer
works just fine from BE -Original Message- From: Martin Hepworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: maandag 6 oktober 2003 17:26 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cisco site down? Ezequiel Carson wrote: hi, can anyone use cisco site? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#

Re: cisco site down?

2003-10-06 Thread Ezequiel Carson
i was using galeon 1.3.5 now it seems to be working.. On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:26, Martin Hepworth wrote: Ezequiel Carson wrote: hi, can anyone use cisco site? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# telnet www.cisco.com 80 Trying 198.133.219.25... Connected to www.cisco.com. Escape

Re: VeriSign Capitulates

2003-10-06 Thread Owen DeLong
Quite the opposite. It is a very carefully chosen set of words indicating that: 1. DNS didn't stop functioning. 2. The internet did not fail to route packets because of this. It carefully side-steps the other issues raised without looking like it is ignoring them.

Earthlink contact

2003-10-06 Thread Sean Crandall
Greetings. If there is someone from Earthlink who wouldn't mind talking about Earthlink's experience with the Cisco 1, I would appreciate it if you could contact me off list. Thanks. -Sean Sean P. Crandall VP Engineering Operations MegaPath Networks Inc. 6691 Owens Drive Pleasanton, CA

NSI privacy advocate

2003-10-06 Thread John Kinsella
I double checked...the press release isn't dated April 1...NSI talking about privacy while keeping a straight face? http://www.verisign.com/corporate/news/2003/pr_20030930.html

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread Peter Galbavy
E.B. Dreger wrote: HTTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. Thus HTTP is a bad idea. SMTP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient checking. Thus SMTP is a bad idea. SNMP implementations have had vulnerabilities due to insufficient

Comcast

2003-10-06 Thread Wesley Vaux
Is anyone having issues sending or receiving email to comcast.net? Is there anyone here from comcast? Wes Vaux, CCNA, CCDA Network Security Engineer

RE: cisco site down? multiple sources reporting connectivity problems

2003-10-06 Thread Brennan_Murphy
I'm on multiple mailing lists now with multiple persons reporting connectivity issues to cisco.com. Can anyone summarize what the issue is? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ezequiel Carson Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 11:41 AM To:

Re: Kiss-o'-death packets?

2003-10-06 Thread E.B. Dreger
PG Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 19:40:04 +0100 PG From: Peter Galbavy PG No, please do not twist my words; I referrred to poor PG implementations of good ideas. Nowhere did I say that the PG protocol is bad as a result of poor implementations. You warned of the hazards of poor implementation. Fine.

Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

2003-10-06 Thread Joel Rowbottom
At 15:52 06/10/2003, Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote: do arbitrary changes to them. Marking com and net as delegation-only is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.) According to this mail: http://gnso.icann.org/mailing-lists/archives/registrars/msg00532.html ... apparently it

Re: cisco site down? multiple sources reporting connectivity problems

2003-10-06 Thread Regis M. Donovan
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:54:41AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm on multiple mailing lists now with multiple persons reporting connectivity issues to cisco.com. Can anyone summarize what the issue is? i see timeouts after connecting via ie5.x and lynx. if i telnet to port 80 and do a

RE: cisco site down? multiple sources reporting connectivity problems

2003-10-06 Thread Sean McPherson
From: Brennan_Murphy Date: Mon Oct 06 14:56:46 2003 --- I'm on multiple mailing lists now with multiple persons reporting connectivity issues to cisco.com. Can anyone summarize what the issue is? I'm currently

Re: Will reverting DNS wildcard have any adverse affects?

2003-10-06 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Rowbottom) [Mon 06 Oct 2003, 22:34 CEST]: At 15:52 06/10/2003, Piotr KUCHARSKI wrote: do arbitrary changes to them. Marking com and net as delegation-only is not harming anything. (At least until ICANN changes its mind.) According to this mail:

RE: cisco site down? multiple sources reporting connectivity problems

2003-10-06 Thread just me
They probably upgraded the code on their { CSSes | Localdirectors }. ;-) On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Sean McPherson wrote: And poof, that's it. No data. Try again, and I randomly get the whole page, part of the page down to the 'Feedback' line, or nothing. Same thing happens from work (ATT /

CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Roland Dobbins
Folks, We've been handling a multi-vector DDoS - 40-byte spoofed SYN-flooding towards www.cisco.com (198.133.219.25/32) as well as an HTTP-AUTH resource-exhaustion attack, and working these issues with our upstreams. Our apologies for any inconveniences, and our thanks to those who've

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Kai Schlichting
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003 14:01:31 -0700, Roland Dobbins wrote Folks, We've been handling a multi-vector DDoS - 40-byte spoofed SYN-flooding towards www.cisco.com (198.133.219.25/32) as well as an HTTP-AUTH resource-exhaustion attack, and working these issues with our upstreams. Our apologies

Re: Reverse DNS problem

2003-10-06 Thread Trent Arsenault
I've been in touch with ARIN on the same issue noticed at a different site. According to ARIN, some older BIND resolvers aren't handling the referrals that they get back from the gtld-servers for some of ARIN's name servers. The problem started Thursday when ARIN changed the list of NS's for

Re[2]: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread jlewis
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Allan Liska wrote: KS The following well-remembered lines come to mind here, and excuse me if KS you hear a slight hysterical laughter from my direction: I don't know what your post has to do with the original topic, but if you don't like the way NONOG is moderated,

Re: Re[2]: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 19:38:38 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: A handful of people (an assumption on my part) have the power / distributed bandwidth to bring just about any internet site/network to its knees using the distributed.net meets DoS tools they've created and distributed to thousands,

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Peter E. Fry
On 6 Oct 2003 at 19:22, Allan Liska wrote: I don't know what your post has to do with the original topic, but if you don't like the way NONOG is moderated, please feel free to start your own Network Operators mailing list. As far as comparing NANOG moderation to Nazi Germany that is

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Charles Sprickman
First They Came for the IRC bots and I did not speak out because I did not run a bot. Then They Came for the IRC servers and I did not speak out because I did not run an IRC server. ...skip a few years... Then They Came for the DNSBLs and I did not speak out because I did not

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Richard Cox
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:45:15 -0500 Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Now we have clear evidence that there are no less than three who | understand the threat. If you mean the threat from those who will attack and disable sites because they don't like what people at those sites

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Allan Liska
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: MD5 Hello Allan, Monday, October 6, 2003, 7:22:30 PM, you wrote: AL As far as comparing NANOG moderation to Nazi Germany that is AL disgusting and beneath contempt. My apologies to Kai and the list, I misread -- to some extent -- the original meaning

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone who doesn't think that's an operational issue, just wait until it bites you on the ass. Now we have clear evidence that there are no less than three who understand the threat. My first thought was that the DDoS was a means of

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread ed
I'm assuming, though not certain, that Cisco would have alternative distribution/communication/update channels in such an event, but is that indeed the case? My access to ftp.cisco.com is working fine whilst the website remains down.. Hi Steve, No I do realize that what I suggested in

Re: Is there anything that actually gets users to fix their computers?

2003-10-06 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 8:15 PM -0400 10/6/03, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: It's a difficult thing for all of us when j.random users start to discover things like personal firewall. I had one threaten me personally with 'investigation' by the FBI because my system was attempting to break into his PC He sent it to my

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Ariel Biener
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Peter E. Fry wrote: Hi, As a jew, I must admit that I also understood the point, and didn't think of Nazi Germany, although you'd think it would evoke an immediate emotional reaction (which it admitedly did), but that reaction did not cloud my judgement. I think

Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Kee Hinckley
Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this one. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html Apparently our objections stem from our lingering resentment over the commercial use of the internet. In case you're wondering who the author is, since neither the bio on the page or Verisign's

[MEDIA] McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

2003-10-06 Thread wayne
As seen on /. http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html Mark McLaughlin, senior VP of Verislime, has an editorial on news.com claiming that ICANN is stifling innovation and forcing the internet to stagnate. The PR machine is out in force and painting anyone who disagrees with them as

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bruns
Wish someone who was good with the clue-axe would take a swing at these dolts. We all know they are crying babies because their new method of profit was shut down. Now, the interesting question will be, how can we prevent them from adding sitefinder again? -- Brian

Re: [MEDIA] McLaughlin Defends Site Finder As 'Innovation'

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bruns
You know who/what this sounds like? Microsoft. When smacked down about IE integration and WMP integration, they screamed bloody murder and claimed freedom of innovation. Exactly what NetSol/Verisign is doing. Maybe they have the same PR firm? -- Brian Bruns The Summit

Utah to deploy public owned fiber to 17 cities

2003-10-06 Thread Eric Kuhnke
From the CANET-NEWS list, this seems relevant to network operations... For more information on this item please visit the CANARIE CA*net 4 Optical Internet program web site at http://www.canarie.ca/canet4/library/list.html --- [From

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Mike Tancsa
The one that pisses me off more is http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top The article makes me wonder if CNET is the press, or an outlet for press releases. The Internet community is almost uniform in expressing outrage for numerous REAL reasons, yet CNET says its from

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Rogaski
An entity claiming to be Mike Tancsa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : : The one that pisses me off more is : : http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top : Here's an interesting slip: At the press conference Monday, VeriSign said it is convening a panel of Internet

Re: sitefinder technical discussions

2003-10-06 Thread Alex Rubenstein
Translation: In the interest in gaining more community review and comment, a discussion list has been setup to discuss factually-based technical issues and solutions surrounding the operational impact of wildcards in top-level domains on Internet applications. VeriSign technical people

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 11:15 PM -0400 10/6/03, Brian Bruns wrote: Wish someone who was good with the clue-axe would take a swing at these dolts. We all know they are crying babies because their new method of profit was shut down. Now, the interesting question will be, how can we prevent them from adding sitefinder

RE: Re[2]: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Terry Baranski
We've been handling a multi-vector DDoS - 40-byte spoofed SYN-flooding towards www.cisco.com Now that they've come for cisco, maybe law enforcement, network operators, and router vendors will all get their $h!t together and do something to put a stop to these DDoS attacks that have

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Terry Baranski [10/7/2003 6:05 AM] : Maybe this will have the positive effect of motivating Cisco to do more to encourage best practices such as edge anti-spoof filtering. To begin with, Barry Green's presentations on these issues are hidden away on his/Cisco's FTP server

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-06 Thread william
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Mike Tancsa wrote: The one that pisses me off more is http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-5087139.html?tag=nefd_top Lewis said the company needs to make money from new services such as SiteFinder, or it will not be able to protect the Net's critical infrastructure. He

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-06 Thread Matt
As the bandwidth ramps up on the access side, this problem is only going to become more and more prevalent (as if it's not already enough of a problem). While I don't think filtering is the silver bullet, it can certainly help at times. I think some of the larger watch sites (eg SANS, etc.)

Comcast - Atlanta?

2003-10-06 Thread Ian Wilson
Could someone with a clue from Comcast in the Atlanta, GA area please send me an email off-list? Thanks; Ian -- Ian Wilson IWCG.net Ian()iwcg!net PO Box 304 .

Architectural issues involving Sitefinder related functions

2003-10-06 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
(since I haven't gotten back my enrollment confirmation, it seemed appropriate to crosspost this to NANOG. While I will address Sitefinder, there are broader architectural and operational issues). Let me assume, for the sake of this discussion, that Sitefinder is an ideal tool for the Web

Trying to subscribe to Sitefinder list

2003-10-06 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Well, I've been trying. I got a double opt-in that gave me a deadline to respond of 5AM Wednesday. I replied. No confirmation. Tried to post (crossposted to NANOG). Got error message telling me I was not yet on the list. Of course, with the apparent assumption the Internet is the Web, the

Re: Trying to subscribe to Sitefinder list

2003-10-06 Thread Brian Bruns
I got on OK, but I used the web based confirmation method. Maybe their mail server got flooded? -- Brian Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group Open Solutions For A Closed World / Anti-Spam Resources http://www.2mbit.com ICQ: 8077511 - Original Message -

An Open Letter of corrections to Mark McLaughlin's Innovation and the Internet

2003-10-06 Thread Owen DeLong
While I realize that your Perspectives area is a place where various people are allowed to submit editorials, your publication of this particular very skewed piece without checking some of the stated facts within it does not meet CNet's usual standard of journalism. In addition to Mr. McLaughlin's