Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On 11/5/07, Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Cough. So, how much is that NXDOMAIN worth to you? So, here's the problem really... NXDOMAIN is being judged as a 'problem'. It's really only a 'problem' for a small number of APPLICATIONS on the Internet. One could even argue that in a web-

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Eliot Lear
David Conrad wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Bora Akyol wrote: >> Do common endpoints (Windows Vista/XP, MacOS X 10.4/5) support DNSSEC >> Validation? If not, then do people have a choice? > > Yes and no. Of course, nobody supports the "Evil bit" today, so some change would be necessary on

Re: Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread Adam Rothschild
On 2007-11-05-10:51:58, Gregory Boehnlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm considering dropping Cogent completely [...] Always a good idea. > 1. Level 3 > 2. MCI/Verizon > 3. AT&T > > I'm looking for comments from actual customers of the above providers in > relation to; > > 1. Network reliabi

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Stefan Bethke
Am 05.11.2007 um 17:16 schrieb Stephane Bortzmeyer: 3) Provide DNS recursors which do the mangling *and* block users, either by filtering out port 53 or by giving them a RFC 1918 address with no NAT for this port. I've seen 1) and 2) in the wild and I am certain I will see 3) one day or the ot

Re: Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread Bradley Urberg Carlson
On Nov 5, 2007, at 9:51 AM, Gregory Boehnlein wrote: I'm considering dropping Cogent completely out of my transit mix, as the number of outages and problems they have been experienced over the past year has reached an unacceptable level. It has gotten to the point that we their BGP

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
> Mark, > > On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > All you have to do is move the validation to a machine you > > control to detect this garbage. > > You probably don't need to bother with DNSSEC validation to stop the > Verizon redirection. All you need do is run a cach

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
Mark, On Nov 5, 2007, at 5:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: All you have to do is move the validation to a machine you control to detect this garbage. You probably don't need to bother with DNSSEC validation to stop the Verizon redirection. All you need do is run a caching server

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, David Lesher wrote: >> What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider >> hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? > >If what Verizon is doing is rewriting NXDOMAIN at their caching >servers, DNSSEC will

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST) >Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a >> DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these "address correction" and >> "domain parking"

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:13 PM, Bora Akyol wrote: Do common endpoints (Windows Vista/XP, MacOS X 10.4/5) support DNSSEC Validation? If not, then do people have a choice? Yes and no. If you run your own caching server and that caching server supports DNSSEC and you enable DNSSEC and set up/maint

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Bora Akyol
Do common endpoints (Windows Vista/XP, MacOS X 10.4/5) support DNSSEC Validation? If not, then do people have a choice? Regards Bora On 11/5/07 11:54 AM, "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:17:29 -0800 > David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Tim Wilde
David Conrad wrote: > > As an aside, I note that Verizon is squatting on address space allocated > to APNIC. From the self-help web page offered to opt out of this > "service" (specific to the particular hardware customers might be using, > e.g., http://netservices.verizon.net/portal/link/help/i

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 5, 2007, at 11:54 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, David Lesher wrote: What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? If what Verizon is doing is rewriting NXDOMAIN at their caching servers, DNSSEC wi

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:17:29 -0800 David Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, David Lesher wrote: > > What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider > > hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? > > If what Verizon is doing is rewriting NXDOMAIN at th

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread D'Arcy J.M. Cain
On Mon, 5 Nov 2007 17:16:11 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:54:05AM -0500, > Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 29 lines which said: > > > One could argue that it is less evil to do this at recursive > > servers, becaus

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 5, 2007, at 8:23 AM, David Lesher wrote: What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? If what Verizon is doing is rewriting NXDOMAIN at their caching servers, DNSSEC will _not_ help. Caching servers do the validation an

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
I think ICANN should probably come out and specify that doing wildcard matchin on TLD delegations is Not A Good thing. You mean like http://www.icann.org/committees/security/sac015.htm ? Regards, -drc

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Conrad
Hi, Based on the procedures they document to opt-out, doesn't look like Sitefinder-like authoritative wildcarding. Looks more like caching server NXDOMAIN rewriting. If so, easy to get around: just run your own caching server. Also means you can't defeat this using DNSSEC (if it was a

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 11:52:02AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > authority for a TLD is bad, because most people don't have a choice of > TLD. (Or at least think they don't.) I don't think that's the reason; I think the reason is that someone who needs to rely on Name Error can't do it, i

RE: STM-1 Connection between Cisco LS1010 an Marconi ASX-200BX

2007-11-05 Thread Neil J. McRae
Could be attenuation limit. Try adding 10db -Original Message- From: Sebastian Ganschow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 05 November 2007 15:09 To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: STM-1 Connection between Cisco LS1010 an Marconi ASX-200BX Hi, sorry for this little OffTopic. We've got a brand new ST

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Bill Stewart
When Verisign hijacked the wildcard DNS space for .com/.net, they encoded the Evil Bit in the response by putting Sitefinder's IP address as the IP address. In theory you could interpret that as damage and route around it, or at least build ACLs to block any traffic to that IP address except for

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread John Kristoff
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST) Sean Donelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just wish the IETF would acknowledge this and go ahead and define a > DNS bit for artificial DNS answers for all these "address correction" and > "domain parking" and "domain tasting" people to use for their keen

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 5, 2007, at 10:54 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS. This is true, but Verisign wasn't doing

RE: Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread David Hubbard
From: Gregory Boehnlein > > Good morning, > I'm considering dropping Cogent completely out of my > transit mix, as the number of outages and problems they > have been experienced over the past year has reached an > unacceptable level. It has gotten to the point that we > their BGP session

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Nov 5, 2007, at 7:40 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Reinventing the DNS protocol in order to intercept odd stuff on the Web seems to me to be overkill and bad policy. Could someone kindly explain to me why the proxy configuration support in browsers could not be used for this, to limit the scope

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread David Lesher
What affect will Allegedly Secure DNS have on such provider hijackings, both of DNS and crammed-in content? [Assuming we ever get to such; I know ASD is in line to deploy just after perpetual motion and honest politicians..] -- A host is a host from coast to [EMAIL PROTECTED] & no one will t

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:54:05AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 29 lines which said: > One could argue that it is less evil to do this at recursive > servers, because people could choose not to use that service by > installing their own full resolvers or whatev

RE: Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread Bailey Stephen
Have only had experience of Level3 & MCI/Verizon in the UK I prefer Level3 due to the following... Scale of the Network Host lots of big content providers across the Globe Very few outages (1 in 12months) on the UK backbone Customer support was very good Always an account manager to assist with

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Phil Regnauld
Andrew Sullivan (andrew) writes: > > The last time I heard a discussion of this topic, though, I heard > someone make the point that there's a big difference between > authority servers and recursing resolvers, which is the same sort of > point as above. That is, if you do this in the authority

RE: Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread Paul Stewart
We had the same issues with Cogent .. I feel your pain... level(3) has always been good for us - very few issues and their support has been great from our perspective. MCI/Verizon did not work well for us at all - their network was solid and customer service wasn't too bad ... our problem was th

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:32:25AM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers > doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS. This is true, but Verisign wasn't doing it on root servers, IIRC, but on the .com and .

Least Sucky Backbone Provider

2007-11-05 Thread Gregory Boehnlein
Good morning, I'm considering dropping Cogent completely out of my transit mix, as the number of outages and problems they have been experienced over the past year has reached an unacceptable level. It has gotten to the point that we their BGP session is shutdown for longer periods than it

STM-1 Connection between Cisco LS1010 an Marconi ASX-200BX

2007-11-05 Thread Sebastian Ganschow
Hi, sorry for this little OffTopic. We've got a brand new STM-1 Connection between 2 of our POPs. The Problem is, we're not able to put it into service. On Side A we've got a Cisco Lightstream 1010 ATM-Switch with a 155SM PAM Modul. Side B is a Marconi ASX-200BX with a NM-4/155SMIRE Module. T

Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...

2007-11-05 Thread Joe Greco
> Sean, > >> > >> Yes, it sounds like the evil bit. Why would anyone bother to set it? > > > > Two reasons > > > > 1) By standardizing the process, it removes the excuse for using > > various hacks and duct tape. > > > > 2) Because the villian in Bond movies don't view themselves as evil. > > Goo