Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network?

2004-01-22 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Although I now what the NA...stands for I have to ask) >> From the initial discussions in Sweden around the new electronic >> communications act, it seems as if the operators are obliged to >> provide >> tapping free of charge. If this turns out t

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
> > > My results vary from 15 minuts to 1 hour. > > Mine too. So nmap sucks if you want to quickly identify daemons running on > strange ports. No big deal. This discussion wasn't about nmap to start with. > The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to run services on > non-standard por

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Brett Watson
> > Wasn't it established that they did infact not leak it but just routed it > inside their own network? Sorry, shouldn't have said "leaked".

Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling

2004-01-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Aaron Thomas [1/23/2004 8:28 AM] : Sender Permitted From (http://spf.pobox.com/) attempts to eliminate Joe Dropping from domain.com by doing a look up on a TXT record similar to [...] As this project is fairly new, there aren't many large domains making use of it, and the tools available aren't m

RE: Large Mail Provider Throttling

2004-01-22 Thread Aaron Thomas
There is a package that is being developed right now that basically will squelch emails received from some domain.com address if the sending IP address isn't in the list of permitted addresses. Sender Permitted From (http://spf.pobox.com/) attempts to eliminate Joe Dropping from domain.com by do

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Tomas Lund
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brett Watson wrote: > I was just having a hard time believing AT&T was leaking 10/8 and that > any other large provider was accepting it so wanted to verify. Wasn't it established that they did infact not leak it but just routed it inside their own network? //tlund

Re: Large Mail Provider Throttling

2004-01-22 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Edward Gray wrote: To protect ourselves from delayed mail, we have implemented several system wide rules to block Autoreplies and Undeliverable messages from being sent to the large providers. Unfortunately, this has resulted in many complaints from customers (since it's all or nothing). We have so

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Ruben van der Leij
+++ Jason Slagle [22/01/04 19:13 -0500]: > > The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to run services on > > non-standard ports to deter cr4x0rs. And I feel it doesn't. > I've sat here and watched this discussion and kept my thoughts to myself > because I'm thinking "Maybe I'm missin

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Jason Slagle
> Mine too. So nmap sucks if you want to quickly identify daemons running on > strange ports. No big deal. This discussion wasn't about nmap to start with. > The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to run services on > non-standard ports to deter cr4x0rs. And I feel it doesn't. I've

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Brett Watson
> RFC1918 addresses are unpredictable on any network other than your own. > You shouldn't make assumptions about them. Anyone may use them for any > purpose on their network. If you send packets into their network using > RFC1918 addresses, you get whatever you get. If you require certaintity > i

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brett Watson wrote: > The customer installed a "network mapping tool" today and suddenly > discovered they were seeing RFC1918 addresses in the map (hundreds of them) > that were *not* part of the customer's internal network. It turns out that > from what we can tell, insight

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread ken emery
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brett Watson wrote: > > The router at route-server.ip.att.net shows about 25 10.0.0.0/8 > > prefixes, most showing up over 4 weeks ago. > > Odd. I didn't see this when looking at at&t's looking glass via web > browser. I was looking for some smaller prefixes though and didn

Large Mail Provider Throttling

2004-01-22 Thread Edward Gray
As probably many of you have already experienced, we have been hit with mailbombs with forged Hotmail (or other large provider) addresses recently. This has resulted in the large provider throttling our mail flow which forces messages to be placed into our local queue for retry at a later time. T

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Matt Levine
On Jan 22, 2004, at 5:53 PM, Brett Watson wrote: The router at route-server.ip.att.net shows about 25 10.0.0.0/8 prefixes, most showing up over 4 weeks ago. Odd. I didn't see this when looking at at&t's looking glass via web browser. I was looking for some smaller prefixes though and didn't

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Ruben van der Leij
+++ Alexei Roudnev [22/01/04 09:05 -0800]: > My results vary from 15 minuts to 1 hour. Mine too. So nmap sucks if you want to quickly identify daemons running on strange ports. No big deal. This discussion wasn't about nmap to start with. The point of the discussion was wether it made sense to r

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Brett Watson
> > The router at route-server.ip.att.net shows about 25 10.0.0.0/8 > prefixes, most showing up over 4 weeks ago. Odd. I didn't see this when looking at at&t's looking glass via web browser. I was looking for some smaller prefixes though and didn't just look for 10/8 :-/ -b

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Stephen Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > The router at route-server.ip.att.net shows about 25 10.0.0.0/8 > prefixes, most showing up over 4 weeks ago. They do not appear to be announcing those routes to customers however (at least not this customer), but setting a static route

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread ken emery
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Matthew S. Hallacy wrote: > ATTBB (Now Comcast) uses ATT.net for connectivity, Comcast has to reach > all their cable modems across the USA from their outsourced tech support > centers, thus, att.net routes 10/8 across their network. Okay, that's fine. However why are the

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Matthew S. Hallacy
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 03:21:01PM -0700, Brett Watson wrote: > > First, yes I know I should call AT&T but I want to know if anyone else sees > this problem: [snip] [random destinations chosen, first few hops removed on purpose] traceroute to 10.150.5.1 (10.150.5.1), 30 hops max, 38 byte packe

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Stephen Fisher
The router at route-server.ip.att.net shows about 25 10.0.0.0/8 prefixes, most showing up over 4 weeks ago. --- ken emery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brett Watson wrote: > > So I just wanted to see if anyone that is defaulting to AT&T is > > seeing this same problem just t

Re: AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread ken emery
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Brett Watson wrote: > > First, yes I know I should call AT&T but I want to know if anyone else sees > this problem: > > I have a customer that is multi-homed to AT&T and WCOM. They accept > "default" via BGP from both providers and announce a handful of prefixes to > both pr

AT&T carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Brett Watson
First, yes I know I should call AT&T but I want to know if anyone else sees this problem: I have a customer that is multi-homed to AT&T and WCOM. They accept "default" via BGP from both providers and announce a handful of prefixes to both providers. Given that they receive default, it's just th

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
My results vary from 15 minuts to 1 hour.

Microsoft Product Informational Resources

2004-01-22 Thread Ben Arnold
After reading NANOG for a few years now and I have found the information here to be very helpful. After sharing the wealth of information I have found here with some of the members of the MIS department here, they asked if there might be some similar organizations with a focus on Microsoft system

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I started such scan 10 - 20 minutes ago; it did not completed yet, so I do not have exact time (it is DSL -> 100 Mbit link + firewall). But you results shows just what I am saying - 99% of all attacks was caused by automated tools, and non-standard ports effectively blocks all such attacks. I ag

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-22 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Patrick W.Gilmore wrote: > In any case, no matter how many resources or black boxes you have, you > cannot guarantee good performance on the 'Net. Too many people > involved over which you have no control. Even if you had control, BGP > is not the right tool to exert such co

AS number for i.root-servers.net.

2004-01-22 Thread Lars-Johan Liman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Friends, Those of you who treat routing to the root DNS servers in a special way, can you please verify that you treat the routing to i.root-servers.net (the NORDUnet/Autonomica server administrated from Stockholm) the way you intend. Prefix: 192.36.14

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-22 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2004, at 4:20 PM, vijay gill wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:05:46PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: My questions are these: "Is sub-optimal routing caused by BGP so pervasive it needs to be addressed?" that depends on your isp, and whether their routing policies (openness or cl

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Fyodor
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 09:04:40AM -0800, Alexei Roudnev wrote: > > Please, do it: > > time nmap -p 0-65535 $target > > You will be surprised (and nmap will not report applications; to test a > response, multiply time at 5 ). And you will have approx. 40% of packets > lost. > > Practically, nm

Re: Outbound Route Optimization

2004-01-22 Thread Olivier Bonaventure
Hello, > I am trying to determine for myself the relevance of Intelligent > Routing Devices like Sockeye, Route Science etc. I am not trying to > determine who does it better, but rather if the concept of optimizing > routes is addressing a significant problem in terms of improved > traffic perf

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
> > Yes. But making a bomber "stealth" means designing it to be difficult > to detect by an opponent. It doesn't mean painting "I am Not a > Bomber, I Am The Ice Cream Man" on the side and hoping nobody takes a > second glance at it. This works as well. 6 years ago we set up faked telnet service

Re: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-22 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I saw such scanners 6 years ago (amazingly, they could not determine very old OS and very oold services...). But, just again, no one use it in automated scans over the Internet. As I was saying, port camuphlaging works as a very first line of defense - it cuts 99% of all attacks and akllow you to