Re: Mitigating HTTP DDoS attacks?

2008-03-24 Thread Barney Wolff
1e6 entries. What finally broke was doing a table list, possibly because the command prints in sorted order. No performance problems were observed at my limited volume of perhaps 3 hits per day. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like.

Re: Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)

2005-05-04 Thread Barney Wolff
that, latency goes up when bandwidth goes up > for your case ? I assume it had to do with different settings for interleaving on the DSLAM, as some prior poster mentioned. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I never met a computer I didn't like.

Re: Acceptable DSL Speeds (ms based)

2005-05-04 Thread Barney Wolff
. Here are a few > examples: When I switched from 1600/384 to 3000/768 dsl, download speed went up to very nearly the promised 3Mbps, but latency to the first hop went from 14 ms to 26 ms. Now I have FTTH, and first-hop latency is 3 ms (acedsl.com, Verizon reseller, good guys). -- Barne

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Barney Wolff
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:26:31AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Barney Wolff: > > > Perhaps, then, one should not be so quick to disparage software-based > > firewalls, resident on the computer itself. > > Yes, but it's only a real obstacle if the malw

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Barney Wolff
e software-based firewalls, resident on the computer itself. After all, there is really no such thing as a "hardware-based" firewall. bugtraq has plenty of reports of software bugs in firewalls resident on dedicated hardware. "Defense in depth" would suggest using both. -

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-29 Thread Barney Wolff
n may need to upgrade again. If we wait much longer, of course, the opportunity will be lost. To argue that it's already too late, when ipv6 is a small fraction of all traffic and an infinitesmal fraction of future traffic is, imho, foolish. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwre

Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

2004-11-20 Thread Barney Wolff
ware of it unless they want to be, it would appear to solve all of these problems. How much would it add to the pain of the v4-v6 transition, to just bite the bullet and do tcp-sctp at the same time? I'd sure rather be a network troubleshooter going through that than living with NAT forever

Re: Distributed Dictonary email slam

2004-09-05 Thread Barney Wolff
n bad users after 1 and edited the sendmail source to wait 10 sec before responding rather than 1. That seems to have discouraged them some. As has been mentioned, the key is either not to have/be a secondary mx or to make it smart enough to know who's valid, to avoid DoSing the forged senders. -

Re: New Solution: (was: Re: Counter DoS)

2004-03-11 Thread Barney Wolff
> announces them to you, voila, DDOS gone. (even for spoofed traffic, > depending on how your filters are set up) Obviously these would be > no-export routes so no peer need be worried. 1. Why is BGP the right tool for this? 2. Is your idea to block only packets destined for the custo

Re: MTU path discovery and IPSec

2003-12-10 Thread Barney Wolff
ough I have no idea how to do it in an ASIC. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. // Simulate a fragmentation algorithm // frag Omtu [Ihdrsz] // Barney Wolff&l

Re: MTU path discovery and IPSec

2003-12-04 Thread Barney Wolff
ckets, the difference between 750 and 1410 will start to become > noticable. That's not how PMTUD works. If DF is set, you discard the packet and report back with ICMP. If DF is not set, you frag the packet - but that's not PMTUD, because no report ever goes back to the sender. -

Re: more on filtering

2003-10-31 Thread Barney Wolff
strictly US analogy: The death penalty for shooting a cop is a legal deterrent, but a wise cop still wears a bulletproof vest. Filter to protect your own network, and, when necessary and possible, your customers from each other and the Internet from your customers. Legalisms punish, after the fact.

Re: 'Net security gets root-level boost

2003-10-28 Thread Barney Wolff
27;t want to make any rash decisions about deploying it." -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: WANTED: ISPs with DDoS defense solutions

2003-08-14 Thread Barney Wolff
o real source with result as a courtesy Doing this from behind a NAT would be difficult. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: User negligence?

2003-07-26 Thread Barney Wolff
n of a money transfer or add an invisible transaction, but that's certainly quite a lot harder than a simple keystroke logger. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: Backbone Infrastructure and Secrecy

2003-07-09 Thread Barney Wolff
But really, since the gas lines are down there too, is fiber the chief worry? -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

[barney@databus.com: NYTimes.com Article: Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice]

2003-01-27 Thread Barney Wolff
- Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 00:43:09 -0500 (EST) Worm Hits Microsoft, Which Ignored Own Advice January 28, 2003 By JOHN SCHWARTZ ... A spokesman for Microsoft, Rick Miller, confirmed that a number of the company's machines had gone unpatched, a

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Barney Wolff
he company's machine and under control of the company - maybe the only scenario where TCPA/Palladium-ng would be acceptable. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: DC power versus AC power

2002-12-29 Thread Barney Wolff
rrent, dial tone and voice current, not just run the switch itself, at least in the Copper Age. I don't think -48VDC is an electrocution risk unless you're sweaty, but a vaporized wrench sure can burn you, and I don't think GFIs existed for DC. Anyway, nukes don't need

Re: Experts: Don't dismiss cyberattack warning

2002-11-19 Thread Barney Wolff
tators are going to find computers, connect to the > Net (outlawed by their leaders), and attack us. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: new bind vuln

2002-11-12 Thread Barney Wolff
d been expected. > > --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me) > http://www.wilyhacker.com ("Firewalls" book) -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: no ip forged-source-address

2002-10-30 Thread Barney Wolff
5. Work by smb on the dangers of spoofed source addresses was already public then. It's long past time for the rest of the world to catch up. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.

Re: How do you stop outgoing spam?

2002-09-17 Thread Barney Wolff
ed. I don't understand this reasoning. The ISP's justification for blocking 25 except to its own servers is to avoid having its facilities used for abuse. How would the local ISP enforce use of SMTPAUTH to connect to some remote ISP? -- Barney Wolff I'm available by contract or

Re: Paying for delivery of packets (was about Sprint Peering, and Importance of Content)

2002-07-11 Thread Barney Wolff
cable/dsl subscriber still only uses about 5-10 Kbps, averaged over a month. If lots of people start watching video streams for much of the day, current cable/dsl rates will not survive. -- Barney Wolff I never met a computer I didn't like.