Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Scott Weeks
> I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for. > > +-+-+--+--++ > | rir | country | type | descr| num| > +-+-+--+--++ > | ripencc | QA | ipv4 | 81.29.160.0 | 4096 | > | ripencc | QA

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Vassili Tchersky
Le Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:07:22PM -0500, Joseph S D Yao a écrit : > > I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for. > > Internal addressing, perhaps, if the AP story is correct. Servers maybe ? I hope that they are not NATed. Taping devices may need a separate management address too :

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: According to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I don't know if it's NAT or a proxy that you need to use to get out to the world, but whatever the exac

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Fergie wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > - -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >According to > >http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html > >all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP addres

Re: Router and Infrastructure Hacking (CCC conference last week)

2007-01-03 Thread Gadi Evron
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Niels Bakker wrote: > * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gadi Evron) [Thu 04 Jan 2007, 00:16 CET]: > >4. I do wish the talk on how CCC set up their multiple-uplink GigE network > >for the conference was filmed, I call this type of "create an ISP in 24 > >hours", in a very very hostile and

Re: Router and Infrastructure Hacking (CCC conference last week)

2007-01-03 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gadi Evron) [Thu 04 Jan 2007, 00:16 CET]: 4. I do wish the talk on how CCC set up their multiple-uplink GigE network for the conference was filmed, I call this type of "create an ISP in 24 hours", in a very very hostile and busy environment such as at defcon or CCC "extrem

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 00:53:23 +0100 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4-jan-2007, at 0:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > > According to > > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-> > > Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. >

Re: Comcast Routing Issues: Northern NJ: Random Failures

2007-01-03 Thread Jeff Shultz
Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:04:17PM -0800, Payam wrote: Should have said... "I wasn't aware that the Internet was a Male ... that needed cleaning of the pipes" and see what they would have said! hahah either way... go comcast go! -Payam I'm sorry, you'll have to explai

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:26:00AM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: ... But there are worse offenses. HTML emails - every author has a choice there, so that ones unforgivable IMHO. Top-Posting and Legalese Addendums to messages are both things that an en

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 12:53:23AM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On 4-jan-2007, at 0:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > >According to > >http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia- > >Block.html > >all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. > > I wonde

Re: Comcast Routing Issues: Northern NJ: Random Failures

2007-01-03 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:04:17PM -0800, Payam wrote: > > Should have said... "I wasn't aware that the Internet was a Male ... > that needed cleaning of the pipes" and see what they would have said! hahah > either way... go comcast go! > > -Payam I'm sorry, you'll have to explain that one to

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:26:00AM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: ... > But there are worse offenses. HTML emails - every author has a choice > there, so that ones unforgivable IMHO. Top-Posting and Legalese Addendums > to messages are both things that an end-user in a COE corporate > environment

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 4-jan-2007, at 0:31, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: According to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia- Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I wonder what they use the other 241663 addresses for. +-+-+--+

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >According to >http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html >all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I don't know >if it's NAT or a proxy that you nee

Re: NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Gadi Evron
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > > According to > http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html > all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I don't know > if it's NAT or a proxy that you need to use to get out to the world, > but whatever

NATting a whole country?

2007-01-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
According to http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-TechBit-Wikipedia-Block.html all of Qatar appears on the net as a single IP address. I don't know if it's NAT or a proxy that you need to use to get out to the world, but whatever the exact cause, it had a predictable consequence -- the e

Router and Infrastructure Hacking (CCC conference last week)

2007-01-03 Thread Gadi Evron
Hi! Happy new year! At CCC last week Raven Alder gave a talk on the subject (Router and Infrastructure Hacking), which was pretty neat! I figure some of you may enjoy this. I hope the video for her talk becomes available soon. http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1197-CCC_inf

Re: Comcast Routing Issues: Northern NJ: Random Failures

2007-01-03 Thread Payam
Should have said... "I wasn't aware that the Internet was a Male ... that needed cleaning of the pipes" and see what they would have said! hahah either way... go comcast go! -Payam Joseph S D Yao wrote: On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:07:23PM -0500, Matthew Walker wrote: Issue was resolved at

Re: Comcast Routing Issues: Northern NJ: Random Failures

2007-01-03 Thread Joseph S D Yao
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 03:07:23PM -0500, Matthew Walker wrote: > Issue was resolved at 1:35 pm. Thank you for the many replies. > > The response when I called Comcast was: > > Sorry Sir, We are doing Maintenance, the pipes were dirty, and they were > cleaning them'. I asked, which pipes, and t

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Mark Foster
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:44:28PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: So why the big deal? Because it's very rude -- like top-posting, or full-quoting, or sending email marked up with HTML. Because it's an unprovoked threat. Because it's an attempt to uni

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Bill Nash wrote: > malicious/hacked sites. Currently, phishing sites and open proxies, make > it into blacklist, but drone network C&Cs do. Darknet is intended to Someone pointed out my typo. This should read 'phishing sites and open proxies don't make it into the blacklis

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 12:07 PM 1/3/2007, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:39:40 + Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:29, you wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: > > > Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access > > > http://ci

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jan 3, 2007, at 9:07 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:39:40 + Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:29, you wrote: On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http://cisco.com?

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Jack Bates
James Blessing wrote: Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on sending 0 prefixes across a BGP session? I just ran through a related issue with one of my upstream peers. It appears that they have a RPF strictly enforced policy, yet during the process of renumber

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:39:40 + > Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > Working fine here. Resolves to 198.133.219.25 > > What does DNS resolution have to do with 403 web errors? > Determining if this is an episode of GSLB's Gone

RE: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Scott Morris wrote: Works fine for me. And a 403 Forbidden is a web server error, not a resolution error if I remember right. Correct. Someone made a boo-boo on some component of www.cisco.com, i.e. changed a chunk of the web server configuration or broke the permission

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Nash
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Andy Davidson wrote: > From a 'problem solving' perspective, a Team Cymru-style bgp peer that > injected very specific routes into their routing table, and matching > configuration which caused those particular routes to be dropped would be > ideal. Additions and deletions wo

RE: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:53 AM 1/3/2007, Scott Morris wrote: Works fine for me. Works for me now too. ---Mike And a 403 Forbidden is a web server error, not a resolution error if I remember right. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Ta

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:39:40 + Simon Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:29, you wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: > > > Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access > > > http://cisco.com? [...] > Working fine here. Resolves to

RE: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Scott Morris
Works fine for me. And a 403 Forbidden is a web server error, not a resolution error if I remember right. Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Tancsa Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 11:35 AM To: James Baldwin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
> Don't include the email you're responding to then it's no longer top > posting, plus you can still read the archive easily. > It would be nice if mailing list software added the archive URL to all email forwarded. Then people could easily say In http://lists.nanog.org/nanog/2007/01/03/

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Simon Waters
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 16:29, you wrote: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: > > Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access > > http://cisco.com? > > Forbidden > > You don't have permission to access / on this server. > > Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encounte

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: > > Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http://cisco.com? Who was talking about chmod -R 0 earlier? Tony. -- f.a.n.finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://dotat.at/ SOLE LUNDY FASTNET IRISH SEA: SOUTHWEST VEERING WEST 7 TO SEVERE GALE 9,

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:24 AM 1/3/2007, James Baldwin wrote: Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http:// cisco.com? Yes. Resolves to 198.133.219.25 for me. ---Mike

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread James Baldwin
Looks like certain portions of it are coming back... that recursive chown is taking a while. James Baldwin On Jan 3, 2007, at 10:24 AM, James Baldwin wrote: Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http:// cisco.com? James Baldwin

Re: http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread Jon Lewis
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Baldwin wrote: Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http://cisco.com? Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the reque

http://cisco.com 403 Forbidden

2007-01-03 Thread James Baldwin
Anyone else getting a 403 Forbidden when trying to access http:// cisco.com? James Baldwin

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Ingo Flaschberger
why.. do not filter/reject html mails? and end the endless discussions? http://bugzilla.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr?&user=&passw=&list=GLOBAL&func=help&extra=configset_taboo_headers bye ingo flaschberger geschaeftsleitung --- netstorage-crossip-flat:fee powered by cros

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Taran Rampersad
Hrm. Well, this is the way I see it. (1) Short inline responses which provide context are useful for following a conversation. (2) Anything longer than 1,000 words (including quotations) merits discussion outside of email, such as within a document or on a site which hosts threaded conversati

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> Some say that top-posting reverses the conversation, but if you > are thumbing through the archives of top-posted threads, each > contribution is on the first screen and you can navigate message > to message in time-order Don't include the email you're responding to then it's no longer top post

Re: on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Justin M. Streiner
This little piece will be top-posted, but everthing else will be inline. I'm also going to trim the pieces that I won't be responding to *gasp*! Please don't shoot me - comments are inline ;-) On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Edward Lewis wrote: I'm not going to pick on the "it's" (grammatically correct,

RE: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
> SecureID might be helpful if you want to differentiate your product > between automatic and manual use, but it doesn't do anything to > authenticate the party you are relaying information to. But it's > useless in a phishing context. If you want a token solution, at least > use something that

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Florian Weimer
* Neil J. McRae: > I didn't see the original post but the topic came > up in 2005 here in the UK as the banks here wanted to > use BGP filtering in the same light. The LINX prepared > a paper on the issues with BGP blackholing and recommended > that if the banks want to trade on the Internet that

on a different "manners" topic, was Re: Phishing...

2007-01-03 Thread Edward Lewis
I'm not going to pick on the "it's" (grammatically correct, but it refers the email disclaimers which I don't feel like commenting on) but I want to say that I've come to appreciate top-posting. With top-posts, there is no need to scroll down the list, and it is more like a conversation than

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 01:36:26PM +, James Blessing wrote: > Expecting the traffic is not a problem, just want some way of verifying > that the traffic isn't malicious/spoofed (e.g. by using unicast RPF or > similar) Whether or not the customer plans on advertising prefixes via BGP, your s

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Blessing wrote: > Expecting the traffic is not a problem, just want some way of verifying that the > traffic isn't malicious/spoofed (e.g. by using unicast RPF or similar) Is there some reason a filter wouldn't work? -Bill

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, James Blessing wrote: > Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on sending 0 > prefixes across a BGP session? Does that somehow make their money not [green,colorful,whatever]? -Bill

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil J. McRae wrote: > are you advertising them routes? > If so then why wouldn't you expect traffic? >> -Original Message- > Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on > sending 0 > prefixes across a BGP session?

Re: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Jeff Aitken
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 12:42:34PM +, James Blessing wrote: > Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists > on sending 0 prefixes across a BGP session? As long as I knew the src ip blocks used by the customer and could craft an appropriate ingress filter, sure. I'm gu

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Andy Davidson
On 3 Jan 2007, at 01:02, Joy, Dylan wrote: I'm curious if anyone can answer whether there has been any traction made relative to blocking egress traffic (via BGP) on US backbones which is destined to IP addresses used for fraudulent purposes, such as phishing sites. I'm sure there are s

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 05:44:28PM +1300, Mark Foster wrote: > So why the big deal? Because it's very rude -- like top-posting, or full-quoting, or sending email marked up with HTML. Because it's an unprovoked threat. Because it's an attempt to unilaterally shove an unenforceable contract down

RE: Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
are you advertising them routes? If so then why wouldn't you expect traffic? > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > James Blessing > Sent: 03 January 2007 12:43 > To: nanog > Subject: Quick BGP peering question > > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNE

Quick BGP peering question

2007-01-03 Thread James Blessing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Very simply : Would you accept traffic from a customer who insists on sending 0 prefixes across a BGP session? J - -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 http://www.enta.net/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) C

RE: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Neil J. McRae
I didn't see the original post but the topic came up in 2005 here in the UK as the banks here wanted to use BGP filtering in the same light. The LINX prepared a paper on the issues with BGP blackholing and recommended that if the banks want to trade on the Internet that they should introduce authe

Re: Phishing and BGP Blackholing

2007-01-03 Thread Scott Weeks
: It also says 'If you are not the intended recipient...' : Since the post is being made to NANOG, : ... so I fail to see why a big deal should be made out of it Because it's bad manners in a public forum. It's impolite in the same way SHOUTING! is. scott --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrot