Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
is any active working group persuing this matter seriously? -rgds Alok - Original Message - From: alok [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 02, 2002 4:26 AM Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks The first, dropping broadcasts destined

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread bmanning
4:26 AM Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks The first, dropping broadcasts destined to your customers, is possibly doable, but not trivial. -- IGP learnt networks .. a small tweaky bit which learns broadcast addresses via the networks in the IGP wud help (again summarization

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread Alex Bligh
- a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this to BGP learnt networks..at least those are complete networks, not subnetted ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more specific BGP routes from now I am assuming you mean 'mark /32's

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
PROTECTED]; nanog [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 5:58 AM Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks ok, so i exploited the ambiguity in the original question. wrt active - there is a sub-group from within the RSSAC members that seems to be exchanging email on a regular basis

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-04 Thread alok
- a very small percentage cud be blocked if u were willing to link this to BGP learnt networks..at least those are complete networks, not subnetted ofcourse its a very small portion, mebbe u cud ask guys to send more specific BGP routes from now I am assuming you mean 'mark

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-11-01 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 29 October 2002 21:11 + Stephen J. Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As they say, if you dont set the rate limit too low then you wont encounter drops under normal operation. It would be useful if [vendor-du-jour] implemented rate-limiting by hased corresponding IP address. IE:

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-31 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:13:11PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:35:38 PST, Crist J. Clark said: (OK.. *technically*, Christ is correct.. you can't tell.. but still) On the classless Internet, how does any router know what is or is not a broadcast address when

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-30 Thread Crist J. Clark
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 16:00:06 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:48:39 PST, Jeff Shultz said: Smurf. Okay. What will this do to my user's ping and traceroute times, if anything? I've got users who tend to panic if their latency hits 250ms between here and the moon

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:35:38 PST, Crist J. Clark said: (OK.. *technically*, Christ is correct.. you can't tell.. but still) On the classless Internet, how does any router know what is or is not a broadcast address when the final destination is not local? Bitch bitch whine whine. Why is it

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Peter Salus
Am I the only one to find this ludicrous? Expecting ICANN to competently hand these things is analogous to asking the Captain of the Titanic about how to handle icebergs. Peter

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
to be fair he only made one mistake in his career.. On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Peter Salus wrote: Am I the only one to find this ludicrous? Expecting ICANN to competently hand these things is analogous to asking the Captain of the Titanic about how to handle icebergs. Peter

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-nanog;merit.edu] On Behalf Of fingers Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:12 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread fingers
Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. these are best practices and not DDoS Protection imho

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
;fingers.co.za] Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:04 AM To: H. Michael Smith, Jr. Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. these are best practices and not DDoS Protection imho

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread fingers
Agreed 100%, but Gov't (being run by lawyers) is well accustomed to defining what the meaning of 'is' is. If they dictate that ISPs employ DDoS Protection, they will define what DDoS Protection means 'for the purposes of this policy'. ah ok the point I was trying to make is, there are

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:34:22 CST, Peter Salus said: Expecting ICANN to competently hand these things is analogous to asking the Captain of the Titanic about how to handle icebergs. Actually, it would be more like asking the Captain how to design bridges. msg06309/pgp0.pgp Description:

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread H. Michael Smith, Jr.
To: fingers Cc: H. Michael Smith, Jr.; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks I would point out that if we were to define it and provide the definition to the proper authorities, it would go a long way towards getting a definition that makes sense. I, (and many others here I would

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Petri Helenius
Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered harmful? I´m all for source address verification though. Pete

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered harmful? Smurf. msg06314/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:25:44PM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote: Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are considered

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jeff Shultz
*** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and ECHO_REPLY packets? Why they are

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:48:39PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote: *** REPLY SEPARATOR *** On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would you like to regulate my ability to

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote: On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit and receive data using ECHO and

RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Dan Lockwood
] Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:03:52PM -0800, Jeff Shultz wrote: On 10/29/2002 at 3:40 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 22:25:44 +0200, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would you like to regulate my ability to transmit

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:24:11PM -0800, Dan Lockwood wrote: Would anyone be willing to post an operational example of CAR for ICMP. I would like to see what others are doing to combat the problem. Dan rate-limit input access-group 2000 1536000 20 20 conform-action transmit

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:31:50PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 01:24:11PM -0800, Dan Lockwood wrote: Would anyone be willing to post an operational example of CAR for ICMP. I would like to see what others are doing to combat the problem. Dan rate-limit input

ICMP filtering, was Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Rob Thomas
Hi, NANOGers. ] ICMP? I have my own thoughts on ICMP filtering, which you will find here: http://www.cymru.com/Documents/icmp-messages.html I don't claim to have correct thoughts, however, so input and suggestions are always welcome. :) If anyone could pick up a NANOG t-shirt for me,

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:00:06PM -0500, Ken Chase wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:11:49PM -0500, Jared Mauch's all... Once again, i'd like to see (other than a performance checking customer) generate more than 2Mb/s of icmp.echo and icmp.echo-reply packets that are legit and not

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-29 Thread Brett Frankenberger
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 09:05:40PM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote: Please discontinue imagination. You obviously don't understand how traceroute works by sending udp packets and getting icmp ttl expired messages back which are not icmp {echo,echo-reply}. Come back when you do understand

ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-28 Thread Sean Donelan
My comment from September 11, 1996 (that's not a typo) http://www.cctec.com/maillists/nanog/historical/9609/msg00302.html But what's interesting is Paul Vixie is speaking about a very narrow requirement, but when it gets translated into government regulation talk, its very different than where

Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

2002-10-28 Thread fingers
Meanwhile, U.S. government security officials are discussing the possibility of creating new regulations that would require federal agencies to buy Internet service only from ISPs that have DDoS protection on their networks, according to people familiar with the situation. Such a