Re: Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) writes: > Portscans on the internet are a fact of life - unpleasant, yes, but you > can safely ignore them, and instead, concentrate on keeping your systems > secured. that is certainly what the malware authors and users hope that we'll all do, so lis

Re: Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1 Nov 2003, at 17:23, Sean Donelan wrote: I have acted as a diplomat de jure negotating resumption of traffic between people blocking these network ranges and organizations in Japan in the past. In addition to Japan, the 211 netblock is assigned to organizations in other Asia Pacific countr

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Henry Linneweh
After having read many of these posts I realized there are chips out there now, oboard that do last mile protection at the gate level which eliminates any of this and the products can come preconfigured for this or not depends on what you want to pay for.   -Henry[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Bill Owens
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:15:18PM -0500, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: > perhaps short for secure tunnel - an ssl tunnel that takes your sip > traffic through http or something, and proxying them through a remote > server? Simple Traversal of UDP through NAT, for details see: http://www.ietf.o

RE: Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread John_York
> I'm thinking > about blocking > the entire /8, as noone on our network needs any contact with > Asia. Sorry to reply to my own email, but due to a few off-list replies I feel the need to state: I'm not speaking of Dell's network - it's another, much smaller company.

Re: Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sean Donelan writes on 11/1/2003 5:23 PM: Its your network (or maybe your employer's network) to do whatever you choose. You may want to consider blocking smaller ranges than the entire /8. Or go the opposite extreme and nullroute 0/0. Portscans on the internet are a fact of life - unpleasant, y

Re: Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > We're seeing an incredible amount of port- and proxy-scans from 211.0.0.0/8, > and 0 legitimate packets from the same range. I'm thinking about blocking > the entire /8, as noone on our network needs any contact with Asia (I belive > those addresses ar

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

2003-11-01 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Dave Howe wrote: > > Brian Bruns wrote: > > My favorite quote is... > > > > BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the > > Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only > > thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP - > > or you could put up

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

2003-11-01 Thread Dave Howe
Brian Bruns wrote: > My favorite quote is... > > BG: Until we had this concept of Web services, software on the > Internet couldn't talk to other software on the Internet. The only > thing that worked was you could move bits - that's TCP/IP - > or you could put up screens - that's HTML - but so

Portscans/PROXY scans

2003-11-01 Thread John_York
Hey gang, We're seeing an incredible amount of port- and proxy-scans from 211.0.0.0/8, and 0 legitimate packets from the same range. I'm thinking about blocking the entire /8, as noone on our network needs any contact with Asia (I belive those addresses are all in Asia - correct me if I'm wrong).

Re: OT: RE: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Owen DeLong
for a STUN server, which I still can't find a copy of. Fortunately it's unnecessary. It works, as long as I don't try to contact another phone behind another NAT. That is the very essence of why I think NAT in the long run is a bad idea... What good is a phone that can't contact another phone. One

OT: RE: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Paul Timmins
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 14:30, james wrote: > We use the Grandstream via sipphone.com for office to office calls. > It is using the RTSP. Just doing some cheap testing before we integrate > this into our Soft Switch, PBX and the PSTN. > > The Sipphone has a "STUN" server function that makes doing

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
james writes on 11/1/2003 2:30 PM: The Sipphone has a "STUN" server function that makes doing SIP behind NAT/PAT workable. I am a little hazy on its function as I am testing and perhaps short for secure tunnel - an ssl tunnel that takes your sip traffic through http or something, and proxying the

RE: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread james
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 11:57, Michel Py wrote: > but on other SIP phones such as the > popular $70 Grandstream if you know the IP address and port of the > remote SIP phone you want to join you can dial it directly. > > Michel. We use the Grandstream via sipphone.com for office to office calls.

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread David Lesher
I predict the next generation of VOIP to: a) run over encrypted tunnels. b) have a server based out of the US.. c) meet massive resistance from the EffBeeEye.. a) will change the issues being debated here. -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & no one will talk to a host tha

RE: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Michel Py
> Joe Abley wrote: > There's no useful way to use H.323 through a NAT though, > at least that I have seen working. In enterprises this has never been a problem as H.323 works fine over any kind of tunnel that goes over NAT and that's already there for other purposes (VPN for example). I have mult

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Owen DeLong
I think Paul Timmins covered it rather well. Owen --On Saturday, November 1, 2003 11:56 AM -0600 Shawn Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Owen DeLong wrote: That probably means they are not using SIP, but, instead are using either H.323 or some other proprietary ugliness. That's unfortunate. S

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Joe Abley
On 1 Nov 2003, at 12:43, Owen DeLong wrote: That probably means they are not using SIP, but, instead are using either H.323 or some other proprietary ugliness. That's unfortunate. You can use SIP through a NAT, if you can hack the NAT to poke particular ranges of ports back to devices on the i

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Shawn Morris
Owen DeLong wrote: That probably means they are not using SIP, but, instead are using either H.323 or some other proprietary ugliness. That's unfortunate. SIP has to include the IP address of the RTP destination in it's payload. As such, you can't use SIP cleanly across NAT unless the NAT box kno

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Paul Timmins
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 12:33, Shawn Morris wrote: > Vonage's SIP implementation is not broken by NAT and in fact Vonage > recommends that you purchase a SOHO router that does NAT. Vonage also has a financial interest in ensuring you're unable to connect using RTP and SIP to anyone else but them.

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Owen DeLong
That probably means they are not using SIP, but, instead are using either H.323 or some other proprietary ugliness. That's unfortunate. SIP has to include the IP address of the RTP destination in it's payload. As such, you can't use SIP cleanly across NAT unless the NAT box knows to proxy the SIP

Re: [Full-Disclosure] Gates: 'You don't need perfect code' for good security

2003-11-01 Thread doug
If you take all of this together we have Microsoft is going to supply us with code that does not work that will allows programmers who know what they are doing to talk to any windows system in the world. Cool. On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Andrew D Kirch wrote: > > You guys missed it, Gates is utterly r

Re: IPv6 NAT

2003-11-01 Thread Shawn Morris
Owen DeLong wrote: If you are telling me that Joe User will never use VOIP, then you are somking from a different internet hooka than the folks at Vonage. I don't know which of you is right, but, I know Vonage has enough customers to say that at least some number of Joe User's are using SIP and R