Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote: > I realise that CDNs probably aren't that keen on people caching as it > reduces their revenue, but a level of being rational about helping the > whole chain deliver means probably more traffic overall. I mean, I could extend an olive branch t

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-21 Thread James Pleger
Arbor had a good writeup on the traffic that they saw. http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2009/01/the-great-obama-traffic-flood/ Regards, James Pleger On Jan 21, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Ong Beng Hui wrote: Is there a general study done on the overall impact of inauguration streaming traffic ? any

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Surely the whole point of this is that the end users (the eyeballs) get the best experience they can as they're the ultimate consumer. So working with everyone in the chain between the content owner and the eyeballs is important. If you're a content owner then you want the experience to be

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-21 Thread Ong Beng Hui
Is there a general study done on the overall impact of inauguration streaming traffic ? any summary on what is the overall gain of bandwidth, etc.

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Vixie
Mark Andrews writes: > Authoritative servers need a cache. Authoritative servers > need to ask queries. The DNS protocol has evolved since > RFC 1034 and RFC 1035 and authoritative servers need to > translate named to addresses for their own use. > > See RFC 1996,

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <497705bd.33e4.009...@globalstar.com>, "Crist Clark" writes: > >>> On 1/20/2009 at 7:23 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > In message <20090121140825.xwdzd4p64kgwo...@web1.nswh.com.au>,=20 > > j...@miscreant.or=20 > > g writes: > >> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kameron Gasso = > wro

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-21 Thread Jim Popovitch
Interesting read on yesterday's streaming. My experiences seem to mirror a lot of what is written here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/21/the-day-live-web-video-streaming-failed-us/ -Jim P.

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009, Nick Hilliard wrote: > This doesn't provide feed-back to the content distributors on partial > downloads, etc - which is useful information to content providers, if > you're into data mining end-user browsing habits. In the specific case of > Youtube, of course I don't kn

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 4:38 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Excellent idea. It is a shame content owners do not see the utility in your idea. To bring this back to an operational topic, just because a content owner does not want to work with someone on this, does the lack of external bandwidth / infrastr

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 21/01/2009 21:30, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: Finding ways to force object revalidation by an intermediary cache (so the end origin server knows something has been fetched) and thus allowing the cache to serve the content on behalf of the conten

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
> Excellent idea. It is a shame content owners do not see the utility > in your idea. > > To bring this back to an operational topic, just because a content > owner does not want to work with someone on this, does the lack of > external bandwidth / infrastructure / whatever make it "OK" to

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Wed, Jan 21, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Google is not the only company which will put caches into any provider - or school (which is really just a special case provider) - with enough traffic. A school with 30 machines probably would

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:27 -0500, Phil Rosenthal wrote: > Representing ISPrime here. Well... representing myself and nobody else, so if that stretches my credibility thin so be it. > It's somewhat absurd to suggest that we are attacking our own > nameservers, I assure you, we didn't spend many

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Crist Clark said: > Another BIND-specific question since we're on the topic. I see > some of our authorative servers being hit with these spoofs, and > yes, the 9.3.5-P1 (that's what Sun supports in Solaris these > days) were sending back answers from the cache... but wait... > w

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Crist Clark
>>> On 1/20/2009 at 7:23 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <20090121140825.xwdzd4p64kgwo...@web1.nswh.com.au>, > j...@miscreant.or > g writes: >> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 9:16 PM, Kameron Gasso wro= >> te: >> >> > We're also seeing a great number of these, but the idiots spoofing the >> >

Re: inauguration streams review

2009-01-21 Thread Jack Carrozzo
COWs are more or less full sites - so standard N concurrent voice calls per carrier (check out the CDMA standard if you're really interested), times the number of carriers. They can do 850+PCS all carrier if configured that way. If we can grab fiber from a nearby building that's best (hence why thi

RE: inauguration streams review

2009-01-21 Thread Paul Stewart
Just curious on that note with COW .. did you have much security related problems setting up stuff nearby? -Original Message- From: Mike Lyon [mailto:mike.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 1:52 PM To: Jack Carrozzo Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: inauguration streams revie

Re: inauguration streams review

2009-01-21 Thread Mike Lyon
How many simultaneous connections can each COW handle? What kind of backhaul connections do they have? -Mike On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:49 AM, Jack Carrozzo wrote: > I can't comment on revenue-generation, though access as a whole was quite > high. > > We hardly had any voice IAs (Ineffective A

Re: inauguration streams review

2009-01-21 Thread Jack Carrozzo
I can't comment on revenue-generation, though access as a whole was quite high. We hardly had any voice IAs (Ineffective Attempts, or 'Busy' messages). Since data can be queued, the only thing that would cause data IAs are bad RF conditions - we had a TON of 'cell on wheels' in the area for the ev

Re: inauguration streams review

2009-01-21 Thread Peter Beckman
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jack Carrozzo wrote: Cell networks held up reasonably well for voice, though SMS and MMS delivery times approached an hour during the event. Switch load in almost the entire US was higher than midnight on New Years (which is generally the highest load of the year). Our netw

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Harald Koch
Graeme Fowler wrote: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:55 -0600, Todd T. Fries forwarded: I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after switching on query logging (and finishing an application of Team Cymru's excellent template) so I decided to DROP traffic from the addresses (wit

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Aaron Hopkins
On Wed, 21 Jan 2009, Phil Rosenthal wrote: This attack has been ongoing on 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 for about 24 hours now, and we are receiving roughly 5Gbit of attack packets from roughly 750,000 hosts. I'm only receiving NS queries for "." from spoofed 66.230.128.15 and 66.230.160.1 via a

Re: isprime DOS in progress, and Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Dale Carstensen
Can't some upstream provider find a source of the DNS NS . questions that is other than isprime?

Re: 2 services have disappeared

2009-01-21 Thread Irish
On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Henry Linneweh wrote: > http://www.networkthinktank.com/ > http://www.completewhois.com > > are there any replacement services for these vanished services? > > -henry > I have been using http://www.robtex.com/ with success. -- Timothy G. O'Brien, CISSP, GSEC,

RE: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Justin Krejci
-Original Message- From: Graeme Fowler [mailto:gra...@graemef.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:08 AM To: Nanog Mailing list Subject: Re: isprime DOS in progress > I've been seeing a lot of noise from the latter two addresses after > switching on query logging (and finishing an

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Phil Rosenthal
Hello, Representing ISPrime here. This attack has been ongoing on 66.230.128.15/66.230.160.1 for about 24 hours now, and we are receiving roughly 5Gbit of attack packets from roughly 750,000 hosts. It's somewhat absurd to suggest that we are attacking our own nameservers, I assure you, w

Re: BGP Session Teardown due to AS_CONFED_SEQUENCE in AS4_PATH

2009-01-21 Thread Enke Chen
Hi, folks: We (IDR Chairs and co-authors) are working on updating RFC 4893 regarding the handling of the confed related segments in the AS4_PATH attribute. Expect to have the revised draft this week. Thanks.-- Enke Rob Shakir wrote: Hi, Further to the initial research sent to NANOG, af

Re: isprime DOS in progress

2009-01-21 Thread Graeme Fowler
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 14:55 -0600, Todd T. Fries forwarded: > From: ISPrime Support > These are the result of a spoofed dns recursion attack against our servers. > The actual packets in question (the ones reaching your servers) do NOT > originate from our network as such there is no way for us

Traffic metrics and cost analysis....

2009-01-21 Thread Murphy, Jay, DOH
Hey all, Can anyone point to a good power-point template/presentation for metric and cost analysis for routing? I will not plagiarize unless; I am given copyright permission :-). Seriously, anyone have one handy, I am under the press to complete a presentation before Friday morning. Thanks

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Nathan Malynn
> policy was consistent with their Do No Harm motto? Google's motto is Do No Evil, not Do No Harm.

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread JC Dill
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I do not work for GOOG or YouTube, I do not know why they do what they do. However, it is trivial to think up perfectly valid reasons for Google to intentionally break caches on YouTube content (e.g. paid advertising per download). Doesn't matter if you have small

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: > >> As for the "you're not allowed to prepend" thing, have you >> experimented to see what happens if you try? Unless they're giving >> you special pricing based on the idea that they're providing you >> with strictly backu

Re: "IP networks will feel traffic pain in 2009" (C|Net & Cisco)

2009-01-21 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > Google is not the only company which will put caches into any provider > - or school (which is really just a special case provider) - with > enough traffic. A school with 30 machines probably would not > qualify. This is not being mean, thi

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Joe Maimon
Jon Lewis wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, mike wrote: Assuming you're getting full routes from this provider, I wouldn't be surprised if the multihop is required because their router you're connected to doesn't have or can't handle full BGP routes. There is a fairly large Tier 1 US provider w

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-21 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> The Beeb's HD multicast feed is about 23Mbit/s to the host, and we received > it at quite decent (subjective) quality here on a JANET-connected university > site. This is full broadcast HD, exactly the same as we have on satellite. We don't consider it generally usable, it's part of IPTV serv

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 21, 2009, at 8:17 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: As for the "you're not allowed to prepend" thing, have you experimented to see what happens if you try? Unless they're giving you special pricing based on the idea that they're providing you with strictly backup transit, they shouldn't be doing

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Warren Kumari
On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:25 AM, mike wrote: Hello, So I am just wondering what my expecations should be in a bgp peering scenario where I am multihomed with my own ASN and arin assigned ip space. At issue is the fact that my backup isp forced me to use ebgp multihop to peer with a router i

WSJ on things to do in Santo Domingo

2009-01-21 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123240330058595471.html -- no idea if you have to be a subscriber or not. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread David Coulthart
On Jan 20, 2009, at 6:31 PM, David W. Hankins wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:54:32PM -0800, Wil Schultz wrote: Anyone else noticing "." requests coming in to your DNS servers? http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5713 I was surprised to see 'amplification' in the subject line here, since

Re: expectations for bgp peering?

2009-01-21 Thread Jon Lewis
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, mike wrote: So I am just wondering what my expecations should be in a bgp peering scenario where I am multihomed with my own ASN and arin assigned ip space. At issue is the fact that my backup isp forced me to use ebgp multihop to peer with a router internal to their netwo

Re: DNS Amplification attack?

2009-01-21 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2009-01-21, Kameron Gasso wrote: > Christopher Morrow wrote: >> a point to bear in mind here is that... 'its working' is good enough >> for the bad folks :( no need to optimize when this works. Also, it's >> likely this isn't all of the problem the spoofed requestors are seeing >> these past fe

Re: Inauguration streaming traffic

2009-01-21 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:38:11PM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Brian Wallingford wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Jay Hennigan wrote: > > > > :We're a regional ISP, about 80% SMB 20% residential. We're seeing > > :almost double our normal downstream traffic

Re: BGP Session Teardown due to AS_CONFED_SEQUENCE in AS4_PATH

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Shakir
Hi, Further to the initial research sent to NANOG, after discussions with a number of operators, we have compiled some recommendations on the handling of invalid AS4_PATH attributes. Any feedback on these recommendations is appreciated: As discussed on the IETF IDR list last month, there are co