Re: great networks

2004-08-13 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Network Guru wrote: Hello, I have the responsibility of buidling a great network team for international /domestic projects and I am looking for quality networking guys to work for me. If you are based out of India or in the US, please do get in

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Michel Py
Bevan Slattery wrote: Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do with blackholing. A brief description of the way it works can be found here: I believe that I am not the only one that is concerned precisely because it is _not_ blackholing, it is hijacking, no matter how

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Bevan Slattery
Micheal, At 04:30 PM 13/08/2004, Michel Py wrote: Trying to patent the wheel is not good for credibility, nor is using the very same stinky methods as the scam artists. Appreciate the hospitable welcome to the NANOG list. For future reference your concern and feedback has been noted and filed

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: I remain unenlightened. Should it be 2 days? Or 1 hour? And why the inconsistent results? Obsolete root glue records? I think your first answer is from the .com gtlds which use a 2 day ttl, the second is from vix.com's nameservers which

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
sorry cant find a really good link, this is what BT have been doing in the UK for a couple months: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5158457/ In answer to the critics, what an ISP chooses to do with its traffic *internally* is up to the ISP, and bear in mind you are not suggesting the scope of the

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Michel Py
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: This is not IP hijacking by any means, Mmmm. What tells you that these routes won't be announced to peers or won't leak? We are not supposed to see announcements for bogons nor for RFC1918 space, but we do. Thinking about it, I agree that hijacking is not the proper

Re: great networks

2004-08-13 Thread Jeff Kell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 09:00:30PM -0700, Network Guru wrote: Hello, I have the responsibility of buidling a great network team for international /domestic projects and I am looking for quality networking guys to work for me. If you are based out of India or in the

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Michel Py wrote: Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: This is not IP hijacking by any means, Mmmm. What tells you that these routes won't be announced to peers or won't leak? We are not supposed to see announcements for bogons nor for RFC1918 space, but we do. Thinking about

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Bevan Slattery wrote: Hi, Just to ease peoples concerns, the patent has nothing to do with blackholing. A brief description of the way it works can be found here: http://www.scamslam.com/ScamSlam/whatis.shtml And based on what I've read, the above has a

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 01:41 PM 12-08-04 +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, Petri Helenius wrote: We have had running code for this since early this year, so depending on the date they filed, prior art exists well documented. (blueprints obviously predate running code) everyone has gone patent

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Henry Linneweh
One would have to conclude since it is the behavior of the present. that it shall not subside anytime soon. Ir was a wonderful time on the internet when we still had trust and respect for each other's endeaver, now we will have to collaborate to get things done with legal shields, we can all

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Bevan Slattery
William, At 06:15 PM 13/08/2004, william(at)elan.net wrote: And based on what I've read, the above has a lot to do with blackholing, I don't see how patent can be claimed on this system with so many cases of prior work of similar nature. The service mainly uses the process of what we have made a

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Henry Linneweh
Redirecting is nothing new and has been around for years, it was never a real problem until washington and the media stuck their face into something they had no clue about, as usual. I am certain there are ways to prevent redirection and those should be applied without a congressional

The Cidr Report

2004-08-13 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Aug 13 21:44:11 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Neil J. McRae
I like point 13 where you highlight how the system is doesn't work. In anycase I doubt that this patent is any more valid outside of the blackholing part and I hope this gets stuck in some lengthy patent legal argument preventing anyone from using it! :-) Why not ask the banks to be responsible

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Edward B. Dreger
BS Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 21:33:33 +1000 BS From: Bevan Slattery BS The service doesn't use a transparent firewall/proxy, but BS instead updates routing information by BGP and that traffic BS gets sent to:from the system via a tunnel. Search recent NANOG presentations. Keep an eye out for

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Michel Py
william(at)elan.net wrote: The only imlementation change to do this would be to provide a link from the webpage where user might have been redirected to the original website they wanted to access But the user never wanted to access the site in the first place; lots of these phishing scams

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread Matthew McGehrin
1.It's a financial issue. In the event of an emergency or an server failure, how many hours can you financially be offline. Are your customers willing to wait up to 2 days for their DNS caches to update with the new IP address? A very busy domain might benefit from having a higher TTL

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The only implementation change to do this would be to provide a link from the webpage where user might have been redirected to the original website they wanted to access (it would have to be done by using proxy service since ip is not

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The service doesn't use a transparent firewall/proxy, but instead updates routing information by BGP and that traffic gets sent to:from the system via a tunnel. BGP Shunt to a tunnel is has been done by several providers on this list for

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've admittedly not read the entire thread, but Squid+GRE+WCCP comes to mind. That combination has been around more than six months. Yep - WCCPv2 can be BGP triggered via a community. So you can have a bunch of devices (not just web) on a

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew McGehrin) [Fri 13 Aug 2004, 16:46 CEST]: 1.It's a financial issue. In the event of an emergency or an server failure, how many hours can you financially be offline. Are your customers willing to wait up to 2 days for their DNS caches to update with the new IP

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Py) [Fri 13 Aug 2004, 16:04 CEST]: william(at)elan.net wrote: The only imlementation change to do this would be to provide a link from the webpage where user might have been redirected to the original website they wanted to access But the user never wanted to

Re: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004, Niels Bakker wrote: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michel Py) [Fri 13 Aug 2004, 16:04 CEST]: william(at)elan.net wrote: The only imlementation change to do this would be to provide a link from the webpage where user might have been redirected to the original website they

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Edward B. Dreger
BRG Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 08:01:06 -0700 BRG From: Barry Raveendran Greene BRG Yep - WCCPv2 can be BGP triggered via a community. So you Speaking of questionable patents... Eddy -- EverQuick Internet - http://www.everquick.net/ A division of Brotsman Dreger, Inc. - http://www.brotsman.com/

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: I remain unenlightened. Should it be 2 days? Or 1 hour? And why the inconsistent results? Obsolete root glue records? I think your first answer is from the .com gtlds which use a 2 day ttl, the second is

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
For another data point, I checked Randy's setup. After all, he was the WG chair for quite awhile, so he'll have a clear preference. Like Paul, different servers visible from the root. Unlike Paul, much longer TTLs. ; DiG 8.3 @a.gtld-servers.net psg.net any ; (1 server found) ;; res

Weekly Routing Table Report

2004-08-13 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 14 Aug, 2004

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread John Payne
On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:59 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: For another data point, I checked Randy's setup. After all, he was the WG chair for quite awhile, so he'll have a clear preference. Like Paul, different servers visible from the root. Unlike Paul, much longer TTLs. Uhh... why are you

Re: ttl for ns

2004-08-13 Thread William Allen Simpson
John Payne wrote: Uhh... why are you looking at vix.net and psg.net from the gtld servers, but vix.com and psg.com from their servers? psg.com has the same servers at the GTLD delegation as in-zone. Aha! My fingers betrayed me. I'm so used to typing .net for network guys. Whereas I

Re: isn't ...isn't perfect, but it's something now

2004-08-13 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, There is a proposal that should interest you. It is called Bounce Tag Address Validation By Dave Crocker. http://www.brandenburg.com/specifications/draft-crocker-marid-batv-00-06dc.html This proposal is now in the IETF MASS WG. TH There was a BoF called MASS held at the recent IETF

Re: great networks

2004-08-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Aug 2004 05:38:02 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have the responsibility of buidling a great network team for international /domestic projects and I am looking for quality networking guys to work for me. If you are based out of India or in the US, please do get in touch with

RE: BGP-based blackholing/hijacking patented in Australia?

2004-08-13 Thread Michel Py
Niels Bakker wrote: Do you propose blocking goatse/tubgirl as well? The same reasoning can apply to those sites. No, and you are comparing apples to oranges. As far as I know, neither goatse nor tubgirl tried to phish my password, SSN, or PIN (or I am missing something?) OTOH, I have