Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread brett watson
On Jun 28, 2007, at 11:44 AM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Whatever -- it exists as a reasonably stable design; starting over would cost us 15 more years that we just don't have.) Are you saying we (collectively) would take yet *another* 15 years to come up with another and/or better design?

Re: Routing Issue?

2007-06-28 Thread brett watson
On Jun 28, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Justin Scott wrote: Good afternoon, is there anyone on the list from Cox communications? Many of our customers that use Cox in Arizona (Phoenix and Tucson specifically, 68.15.190.16 is one of the sources) are having trouble reaching our network in Tampa, FL

Re: Security gain from NAT

2007-06-04 Thread brett watson
On Jun 4, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Donald Stahl wrote: A SI firewall ruleset equivalent to PAT is a single rule on a CheckPoint firewall (as an example): Src: Internal - Dst: Any - Action: Allow Done. Done indeed! Botnet operators *love* this policy. This type of policy is probably worse

Re: death of the net predicted by deloitte -- film at 11

2007-02-11 Thread brett watson
On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Chris L. Morrow wrote: perhaps next time the news folks could ask someone who runs a network what the problems are that face network operators? they did ask one, you must have missed this from the article: Verisign, the American firm which provides the

Re: [da] news: Trend Micro launches anti-botnet service

2006-09-26 Thread brett watson
On Sep 25, 2006, at 9:04 PM, Jeff Kell wrote: Well, a prefix hijack either means a router has been pwned, as I suggested, or a router is (as Governor Tarkin put it) far too trusting of its peers. And anyhow, I was speaking of BGP flaps in the context of botnets - has anybody seen an

pre-nanog dns-operations workshop

2006-05-25 Thread brett watson
If anyone is interested in attending a 1-day pre-nanog (June 2) workshop for dns-operations, details can be found at the URL below. http://public.oarci.net/dns-operations/workshop-2006 -b

Re: DNS deluge for x.p.ctrc.cc

2006-02-24 Thread brett watson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:30 AM, Ejay Hire wrote: It may be coincidental, but TXT and ANY queries for this zone were the ones used in the multi-gigabit reflected dns DDOS against us earlier this month. this would be a fine thread to discuss on dns-operations, which a bunch of you here have

Re: DNS deluge for x.p.ctrc.cc

2006-02-24 Thread brett watson
On Feb 24, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Randy Bush wrote: this would be a fine thread to discuss on dns-operations, which a bunch of you here have already joined. http://lists.oarci.net/mailman/listinfo/ i joined but have never seen a message on that list. and this discussion seems useful. maybe we

reminiscing (was re: level 3)

2005-11-11 Thread brett watson
On Nov 11, 2005, at 2:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we clustered the engineers into the IETF terminal room since we're reminiscing, we did this at dallas ietf in 1995, i think it was (yes, http://merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2000-11/ msg00222.html). we had hit a timer bug in

Re: commonly blocked ISP ports

2005-09-14 Thread brett watson
On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:41, Luke Parrish wrote: Not quite looking for tips to manage my network and ACL's or if should or should not be blocking, more looking for actual ports that other ISP's are blocking and why. seems to me this is the wrong question... a default

re: commonly blocked ports (but not on backbones)

2005-09-14 Thread brett watson
seems to me this is the wrong question... a default security posture (network or system, isp or enterprise or any type of entity) should be: if it's not explicitly allowed, it's denied. apologies, i see the original poster was talking about a *backbone*... my mind was on

Re: LA power outage?

2005-09-12 Thread brett watson
On Sep 12, 2005, at 1:32 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:    there's also a blurb on yahoo news of an outage http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050912/ap_on_re_us/la_power_outage AM radio news is reporting a "wrong cable cut" by the department of water and power folks...  they're saying "no ties to

Re: Traceroute with ASN

2005-03-15 Thread Brett Watson
On 3/15/05 3:11 AM, Ziggy David Lubowa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 17:51:32 +0800 (CST), Joe Shen wrote Yes. Can I do this on a Linux box without having to install Zebra BGP on it? Doesnt look like you have to, below is the link to the tarball

Re: Converged Networks Threat (Was: Level3 Outage)

2004-02-26 Thread Brett Watson
1) their backbones currently work - changing them into something which may or may not work better is a non-trivial operation, and risks the network. i would disagree. their backbone tend to reach scaling problems, hence the need for bleeding/leading edge technologies. that's been my

ATT carrying rfc1918 on the as7018 backbone?

2004-01-22 Thread Brett Watson
First, yes I know I should call ATT but I want to know if anyone else sees this problem: I have a customer that is multi-homed to ATT 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 the

Re: ATT 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 att's looking glass via web browser. I was looking for some smaller prefixes though and didn't just look for 10/8 :-/ -b

Re: ATT 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 its

Re: ATT 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: sniffer/promisc detector

2004-01-19 Thread Brett Watson
i wish you were right. i wish you were even close to right. but we've been attacked many times over the years by some extremely smart adolescent psychopaths -- where adolescence is a state of mind in this case, rather than of years -- and i wish very much that they would either stop being

Re: Problems with ATT

2003-03-19 Thread brett watson
On Wednesday, Mar 19, 2003, at 12:28 America/Phoenix, Sean Donelan wrote: On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, German Martinez wrote: Anybody here seeing problems with AS7018 ? ... ... If you report it to ATT, they seem to get it fixed; but then the problems re-appear a few days later. I'm guessing that

RE: DWDM interconnects

2003-01-06 Thread brett watson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of David Diaz Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 5:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: DWDM interconnects Actually I forgot to mention. Since we have different frequencies for the lasers, you and

performance testing/monitoring

2002-07-02 Thread brett watson
hate to break up the peering thread but i'm wondering if anyone has experience/knowledge of Empirix tools? i worked with them back when they were known as midnight networks but they focused on protocol conformance testing at the time (mid-90s). they're corporate history has no mention of

Re: ATTBI refuses to do reverse DNS?

2002-06-18 Thread brett watson
--On Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:30 AM -0700 Lou Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A client of mine just discovered that he could no longer do ftp transfers to my machine. His IP address had changed to one in 12.240.20 and there is no reverse DNS for that block. His previous assignment was in a

Re: Diagnostic Tools

2002-06-06 Thread brett watson
- Original Message - From: Pawlukiewicz Jane [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Marc Pierrat [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: Diagnostic Tools No. But I was thinking of something more robust. And I think it depends on what level you