Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Haesu
First of all, have your tools ready so that whenever DoS pounds on you, you can immediately activate them and they will give you an overview of the DoS attack such as size of the attack, source/dest (random or one/two or spoofed?), et al. Then you need to contact your upstream first to hve them d

Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > You knew the sources are small and you knew where they were. You did the > right thing by contacting FSU, and then their upstream. > If either was unresponsive, they are being extremely neglegent. Its generally a better idea to contact your own upstream pro

Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Brian Bruns
- Original Message - From: "Mark Radabaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 11:56 PM Subject: Re: DoS Attacks > > I think I would follow two avenues next time - the direct approach with FSU > (or wherever the traffic is coming from) as well as

Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Avleen Vig
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:45:35PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote: > So here I am, asking if anyone here has any advice on dealing with these > issues in the future? Its painfully apparent noone takes these situations > seriously enough. What should we do when we are put in a position like > this? Ju

Re: DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Mark Radabaugh
> So here I am, asking if anyone here has any advice on dealing with these > issues in the future? Its painfully apparent noone takes these situations > seriously enough. What should we do when we are put in a position like > this? Just sit back and hope it goes away itself? > > Also, any idea

kooky BGP tricks

2003-10-07 Thread E.B. Dreger
Greetings all, Time for the "kooky routing idea of the year" post... Scenario: AS65000 is a bandwidth provider. One of their downstreams wishes to peer with AS65100, or to multihome with AS65100 as a second upstream. The obvious and 100% correct answer is for $downstream to register their o

DoS Attacks

2003-10-07 Thread Brian Bruns
Oh boy, what a fun night this was. After a 4 or so hours downtime, my servers are back up and running. Heres the gorey details. At about 7pm EST, we began having unusual issues with our network, the router, and several machines on the network. For the first part of the attack, we were held dow

RE: New virus

2003-10-07 Thread Rob V
I got a copy from someone on Videotron just a short while ago: Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from modemcable100.179-201-24.mtl.mc.videotron.ca ([24.201.179.100]) by fep02-mail.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com (InterMail vM.5.01.05.12 201-253-122-126-112-20020820) wit

Anyone at Level3?

2003-10-07 Thread Kee Hinckley
Looking for someone at Level3. While this pales in comparison to Cisco's DoS situation, my home DSL connection is currently getting slammed by a Level3 customer who has in the past week attempted to send me 2.6 million email messages in bursts that are swamping my connection--even though I reje

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Marc Binderberger
Charles, Let's add a very important line: "Then They Came for the OC-3 or smaller connections and I did not speak out because I run fat OC-12 - OC-48 pipes" which doesn't help you much today. I've seen attacks of around a Gbit/s bandwidth. So a OC-48 is already in danger. The OC-12 is useless. A

Re: Photos from today's ICANN SSAC meeting on SiteFinder in DC

2003-10-07 Thread John Neiberger
Declan McCullagh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/7/03 3:58:33 PM >>> > >They're here: >http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/icann-verisign-meeting-oct03.html > >I double-checked everyone's names and affiliations but I could have >made an error. If I did, please let me know. > >Thanks, >Declan Is it just m

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:55 PM 07/10/2003, Declan McCullagh wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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 i

Photos from today's ICANN SSAC meeting on SiteFinder in DC

2003-10-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
They're here: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/icann-verisign-meeting-oct03.html I double-checked everyone's names and affiliations but I could have made an error. If I did, please let me know. Thanks, Declan

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:41:14PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote: > 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 reas

Re: VeriSign list (was: sitefinder ...)

2003-10-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:27:06AM -0400, William Allen Simpson wrote: > I will not participate in a VeriSign sponsored list, as that might > give fodder for another "press release" claiming network operators and > designers had reviewed and approved the VeriSign changes. I recommend > that ot

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

2003-10-07 Thread Declan McCullagh
On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 11:28:33PM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote: > 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? Without taking a position on the

Re: an example individual response to Verisign spin

2003-10-07 Thread Brian Bruns
Ok, I've been working on this for a while, its still v1.1 of the document, so it needs some more work including references and stuff like that. I wrote it in AbiWord, but it didn't translate to HTML so well, will work on getting it better later on tonight. Comments are welcome. http://www.sosdg

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 10:00 AM -0700 10/7/03, Owen DeLong wrote: development, but, I think whatever comes out should be brought back here for review before being launched at the press as a statement of community position. I think it should also be taken to other similar lists and The recently posted "LINX Letter to

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread doug
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > > At 10:27 AM +0100 10/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct > >>such a response. > > > >Are you being paid by Verisign? > > A disclaimer seems appropriate -- right now, I'm being onl

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Craig A. Huegen
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:28:34AM -0700, Crist Clark wrote: ==>Jared Mauch wrote: ==>> ==>> I've reported it to them in the past and their IT ==>> folks can't seem to get it fixed :( ==> ==>In BIND logs too, but if I do the check now, they both seem to be returning ==>authoritive record

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Crist Clark
Jared Mauch wrote: > > They've had this broken for weeks now. > > You'll also see (depending on nameserver) > > this in your logs: > > Oct 7 14:10:36 unix named[3502]: lame server resolving 'ftp.cisco.com' (in > 'ftp.cisco.com'?): 64.102.255.39#53 > Oct 7 14:10:36 un

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Crist Clark [07/10/03 10:51 -0700]: > ftp.cisco.com name server rtp5-dirty-ddir.cisco.com > ftp.cisco.com name server sjce-dirty-ddir.cisco.com > > Look at the query time. The other NS for ftp.cisco.com has a similar > time for me. I didn't show it here, but the NS records for ftp.cisco.com >

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Jared Mauch
They've had this broken for weeks now. You'll also see (depending on nameserver) this in your logs: Oct 7 14:10:36 unix named[3502]: lame server resolving 'ftp.cisco.com' (in 'ftp.cisco.com'?): 64.102.255.39#53 Oct 7 14:10:36 unix named[3502]: lame server resolving 'f

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Richard D G Cox
On 7 Oct 2003 17:39 UTC Ezequiel Carson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | hi, can you resolve ftp.cisco.com? | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ping ftp.cisco.com | ping: unknown host ftp.cisco.com | [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# | | something is wrong here I can both resolve and reach it from opposite en

fyi: an example individual response to Verisign spin

2003-10-07 Thread Jeff . Hodges
Subject: [IP] Yesterdays WJS article on Versign http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200310/msg00057.h tml --- Forwarded Message Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:45:48 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dave Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [IP] Yesterdays WJS article on

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Crist Clark
Ezequiel Carson wrote: > > hi, > > can you resolve ftp.cisco.com? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ping ftp.cisco.com > ping: unknown host ftp.cisco.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# > > something is wrong here Their DNS is a little strange and slow, but it resolves for me, [521:~] host -t

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread james
Works from here: [EMAIL PROTECTED] james]# tcptraceroute ftp.cisco.com 21 Selected device eth0, address 65.19.4.24 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to ftp.cisco.com (198.133.219.27) on TCP port 21, 30 hops max 1 alb-router.cybermesa.com (65.19.1.2) 19.750 ms 0.234 ms 0.261 ms 2 albuqu

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Mehmet Akcin
works here Mehmet Akcin - Original Message - From: "Ezequiel Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2003 1:39 PM Subject: ftp.cisco.com broken ? > > hi, > > can you resolve ftp.cisco.com? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ping ftp.cisco.com > ping: u

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> we're only upset because Verisign makes money off of this. I'm sure that is a factor too. Verisign have a contract to operate a shared registry, as a monopoly is unreasonable, but hijack it to make a different service that nobody else gets to bid for running. If such a service were a feasibl

Re: ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Ezequiel Carson wrote: > can you resolve ftp.cisco.com? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ping ftp.cisco.com > ping: unknown host ftp.cisco.com > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# Probably something to do with the DDoS they said they were under yesterday. Non-authoritative answer:

RE: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Sean McPherson
>We're continuing the work the issue, and would be grateful if operators >would check for 40-byte spoofed TCP headed towards 198.133.219.25/32 and >trace/block it as warranted. Your patience and understanding are greatly >appreciated. > >Thanks! > >

ftp.cisco.com broken ?

2003-10-07 Thread Ezequiel Carson
hi, can you resolve ftp.cisco.com? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# ping ftp.cisco.com ping: unknown host ftp.cisco.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]# something is wrong here ezequiel.

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Owen DeLong
--On Tuesday, October 7, 2003 10:27 AM +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct such a response. Are you being paid by Verisign? Absolutely not. In fact, I would be almost as glad to see Verisign disappear as Micr0$0ft. Lately, I'm beg

Re: South America NOG ?

2003-10-07 Thread Randy Bush
foro de redes has been going on since '91. the mailing list is enredo. randy

RE: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Matt wrote: The nsp-security list coordinates the interaction between ISPs and NSPs in near real-time. The list has helped mitigate attacks and will continue to do so. Those interested in being members and that fulfill the requirements should review: https://puck.nether.n

Re: Reverse DNS problem - ARIN changes last week

2003-10-07 Thread Trent Arsenault
Hi Brad, Paul, I received the below note from ARIN yesterday evening regarding their NS changes on Thursday. This should explain what we're seeing. It appears some older versions of BIND and some os-bundled resolver libraries may be affected. Trent Original Message Subject: R

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:59 AM -0400 10/7/03, William Allen Simpson wrote: "Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: > I hope to get to at least part of the ICANN meeting I think I'll have myself organized enough to get there for the afternoon part of the meeting. Wish they had said if there was a working lunch. In the i

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

2003-10-07 Thread Gerald
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, wayne wrote: > As seen on /. > > http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html Also on /. a parody of that article too funny not to link to: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=81344&cid=7150189 I reformatted it for easier reading here: http://kod.inch.com/pics/funny/Veri

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
"Howard C. Berkowitz" wrote: > > At 10:27 AM +0100 10/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >And this list is definitely not the place to > >discuss writing a letter of protest. If political > >activity is your bag, then try http://www.meetup.com > Mr. Dillon forgets that all inter-human activity, in

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
"Stephen J. Wilcox" wrote: > You are making assumptions.. Cisco havent said if the source was spoofed or not, > as a recent nanog thread indicated a lot of attacks do not use spoofed addresses > any more simply because the controllers have access to enough legitimate windows > boxes to not care a

Re: VeriSign list (was: sitefinder ...)

2003-10-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 9:27 AM -0400 10/7/03, William Allen Simpson wrote: Mark Kosters wrote: 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 domain

LINX Letter to ICANN regarding Verisign

2003-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
FYI. Sent yesterday : Submission by the London Internet Exchange to the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee Regarding Verisign's Deployment of Wildcard DNS Records The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is Europe's largest Internet exchange point. Owned mutually by nearly 140 member In

VeriSign list (was: sitefinder ...)

2003-10-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
Mark Kosters wrote: > > 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. > We already have

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 8:13 AM -0400 10/7/03, Kee Hinckley wrote: At 10:27 AM +0100 10/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct such a response. Are you being paid by Verisign? A "constructed" response is the worst thing we could do. Everyone should write their

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:27 AM +0100 10/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct such a response. Are you being paid by Verisign? A disclaimer seems appropriate -- right now, I'm being only occasionally paid for consulting by clients not having anything to do

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Stephen J. Wilcox [10/7/2003 6:06 PM] : You are making assumptions.. Cisco havent said if the source was spoofed or not, as a recent nanog thread indicated a lot of attacks do not use spoofed addresses any more simply because the controllers have access to enough legitimate windows boxes to not

RE: Some very strange network behaviors - follow-up

2003-10-07 Thread Christopher Bird
For those still interested, here is the status of this issue. I suspect that my NIC is in promiscuous mode - I run winpcap for traffic monitoring on my home network. Of course in the world of Microsoft it isn't always straightforward to determine these things! So it isn't a great surprise that so

Re: CCO/cisco.com issues.

2003-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > 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 issue

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
"For this vocal minority, resentment lingers at the very fact that the Internet is used for commercial purpose, which ignores the fact that it's a critical part of our economy." So verisign admit its about the $$$s then? Sticking on the commercial argument claim which this argument is about,

New virus

2003-10-07 Thread Andrew Fried
I just received an email proporting to be from Symantec that contained an anti-virus signature update. The message originated in the Netherlands. The attachment has been submitted to Symantec and FortiNet for review, however, I thought the community might want a heads up since I do not know t

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 10:27 AM +0100 10/7/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct such a response. Are you being paid by Verisign? A "constructed" response is the worst thing we could do. Everyone should write their own responses in their own words based on the

AS5384 routing table is not propagating

2003-10-07 Thread Henry Linneweh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1 AS5384 routing table is not propagating very good here and I see atleast 50 instances of that I was checking it for a peer trying to get a better route result - -Henry R Linneweh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-Version: PGP 8.0.2 - not licensed for commerc

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Henry Linneweh
Innovation and the Internet http://news.com.com/2010-1071-5086769.html   is about 12 hours old on google news   -HenryBrian Bruns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I donno about anyone else, but I absolutely suck on the PR end ofthings.Now, I *am* good at writing documentation for end users (I used

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Michael . Dillon
>I think this list may be a very good choice of where to construct >such a response. Are you being paid by Verisign? A "constructed" response is the worst thing we could do. Everyone should write their own responses in their own words based on their own experiences or their own skills and knowle

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread Michael . Dillon
>I know personally I would love to put out a paper, but I have no idea where >to begin. If you don't have the time to write a paper then sit down and write a case study about your own experiences that could be published in a trade magazine or your local newspaper. Submit it to your favorite pub

Re: sitefinder technical discussions

2003-10-07 Thread Michael . Dillon
>Having been involved in the community internet for as long as I have, I >want to wretch. I'd think Mark would be one of those, as well. Whether he does or doesn't want to retch, Mark does need a job and he happens to have one currently at Verisign as do a number of other skilled technical people

Re: sitefinder technical discussions

2003-10-07 Thread Michael . Dillon
>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. If anyone wants to follow this via the web

Re: sitefinder technical discussions

2003-10-07 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 06.10 23:51, Mark Kosters wrote: > > 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. >

Re: Verisign's public opinion play

2003-10-07 Thread George William Herbert
One soundbite which just came to me: "What if the company which has the Yosemete restaraunt consession put up a 300 foot rig and drilled for oil behind the kitchen?" -george william herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]