Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/03/2013 14:21, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: And if you get a recursive lookup for www.ebay.com from a hotel network, I'm struggling to understand why it's necessary to hard-code dns servers into the ip networking configuration of a portable device. By definition, these devices will

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread John Curran
On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: The problem here is, of course, one of externalities and the Common Good, hard sales to make in a business environment. Common Good situations are readily dealt with, but generally not on a voluntary basis. You establish how

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Alain Hebert
Well, On 03/27/13 07:20, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 26/03/2013 14:21, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: And if you get a recursive lookup for www.ebay.com from a hotel network, I'm struggling to understand why it's necessary to hard-code dns servers into the ip networking configuration of a

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/03/2013 12:40, Rich Kulawiec wrote: It's necessary because many operations are screwing with DNS results in order to advance/suppress political agendas, impose their moral code via censorship, profit via redirection to search portals, etc. If we could actually trust that J. Random Hotel

Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread James Smith
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details?

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:40 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Surveying which connections are open to address spoofing may or may not be a criminal activity. It all depends on intent of the person gathering the data. Such is the nature of law. When a dead body shows up shot, intent

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Pierre Emeriaud
Hello James, 2013/3/27 James Smith thepacketmas...@hotmail.com: Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details? SMW4 :

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/03/2013 12:49, James Smith wrote: Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details? smw4 is down, off the north coast of egypt:

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread sthaug
Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is affecting some Internet traffic. Anyone have any details? See the outages list: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2013-March/005386.html Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting,

RE: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread James Smith
Thanks for the quick responses, great information! From: thepacketmas...@hotmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Line cut in Mediterranean? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:49:10 -0400 Getting reports from a third party vendor that there's been a line cut in the Mediterranean that is

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Alain Hebert
Little bit of fun with http://bindguard.activezone.de/ This little example with an open resolver with only 200 queries a minute... The following list show the # of queries made followed by the query in question. False positive: 69.x.x.x 2 a1.mzstatic.com IN A +

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us Indeed. But it isn't achievable. $Random_SOHO will continue to be hacked on a regular basis. He doesn't have someone working for him with the skill to prevent it. Further victimizing him

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Tom Paseka t...@cloudflare.com wrote: Authoritative DNS servers need to implement rate limiting. (a client shouldn't query you twice for the same thing within its TTL). Right now that's a complaint for the mainstream software authors, not for the system

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-03-27, at 09:47, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Tom Paseka t...@cloudflare.com wrote: Authoritative DNS servers need to implement rate limiting. (a client shouldn't query you twice for the same thing within its TTL). Right now that's a

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 27, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: then use a vpn and/or provide that service to your users. Sure, hotels and public access wifi does all sorts of stupid and obnoxious stuff, but the way to work around this is not by hardwiring your dns to some open resolver.

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 8:47 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Tom Paseka t...@cloudflare.com wrote: Authoritative DNS servers need to implement rate limiting. (a client shouldn't query you twice for the same thing within its TTL). Right now that's a complaint for the mainstream

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: John Curran jcur...@arin.net On Mar 26, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: The problem here is, of course, one of externalities and the Common Good, hard sales to make in a business environment. Common Good situations are readily

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: On 3/27/2013 8:47 AM, William Herrin wrote: Right now that's a complaint for the mainstream software authors, not for the system operators. When the version of Bind in Debian Stable implements this feature, I'll surely

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 9:34 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: Tracking the clients would be a huge dataset and be especially complicated in clusters. They'd be better off at detecting actual attack vectors rather than rate limiting. I

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 9:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Is BCP38 *not* well enough though out even for large and medium sized carriers to adopt as contractual language, much less for FCC or someone to impose upon them? If so, we should work on it further. BCP38 could definitely use some work. It is correct

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 51530632.3020...@brightok.net, Jack Bates writes: On 3/27/2013 9:34 AM, William Herrin wrote: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: Tracking the clients would be a huge dataset and be especially complicated in clusters. They'd be better off at

BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
Outside of needing more details and examples, BCP38 could use more advertising. The best option, if they would accept it, is to have all RIRs mention BCP38 as well as require that mention of BCP38 be included in all IP justification requests to customers (so that those who receive netblocks

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 515309ec.4070...@brightok.net, Jack Bates writes: On 3/27/2013 9:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Is BCP38 *not* well enough though out even for large and medium sized carriers to adopt as contractual language, much less for FCC or someone to impose upon them? If so, we should work

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread John Curran
On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Indeed, but I have an even better example of how that's already done, that is probably pertinent. The National Electric Code is assimilated law now, I think, in every state in the US. It is promulgated by the National Fire

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: It's also not a bad idea for an ISP to deploy EGRESS filters if they do not offer BGP Transit services. Nor is it a bad idea for their upstream to inquire as to whether the downstream offers BGP transit services and apply

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 10:25 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Technologies change. Concepts rarely do. BCP38 is technology neutral. If we follow that, we should just state Don't allow spoofed IP Addresses! and leave it to the individual to figure it out. BCP38 leaves that premise by mentioning ingress

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Owen DeLong
It's been available in linux for a long time, just not in BIND… Here is a working ip6tales example: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 2620:0:930::/48 -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 2001:470:1f00:3142::/64 -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 10:40 AM, William Herrin wrote: Build a web page where a downstream can set the filters on his interface at his convenience. Apply some basic sanity checks against wide-open. Worry about small lies from a forensic after-the-fact perspective. This problem has a trivial

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Anurag Bhatia
Yes smw4 issues across Egypt. In India (and Pakistan also) services are badly impacted. Here in India most of traffic from major networks is going via East Asia route and we are experiencing latency of over 700ms with US and Europe from last few hours. On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 6:50 PM, James

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software IP Service Level Agreement Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software IP Service Level Agreement Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-ipsla Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 16:00 UTC (GMT) +- Summary

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Protocol Translation Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software Protocol Translation Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-pt Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 16:00 UTC (GMT) +- Summary

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Smart Install Denial of Service Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software Smart Install Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-smartinstall Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 16:00 UTC (GMT

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Network Address Translation Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software Network Address Translation Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-nat Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 10:00 UTC (GMT) +- Summary

Re: BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Alain Hebert
bcp38.org coming soon =D - Alain Hebertaheb...@pubnix.net PubNIX Inc. 50 boul. St-Charles P.O. Box 26770 Beaconsfield, Quebec H9W 6G7 Tel: 514-990-5911 http://www.pubnix.netFax: 514-990-9443 On 03/27/13 11:20, Jack Bates wrote:

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Internet Key Exchange Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software Internet Key Exchange Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-ike Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 16:00 UTC (GMT) +- Summary

Cisco Security Advisory: Cisco IOS Software Zone-Based Policy Firewall Session Initiation Protocol Inspection Denial of Service Vulnerability

2013-03-27 Thread Cisco Systems Product Security Incident Response Team
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Cisco IOS Software Zone-Based Policy Firewall Session Initiation Protocol Inspection Denial of Service Vulnerability Advisory ID: cisco-sa-20130327-cce Revision 1.0 For Public Release 2013 March 27 16:00 UTC (GMT

Re: BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
Please reference: http://openresolverproject.org/ http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/ http://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-ddos-attack ...and anything else to raise the awareness level. Thanks, - ferg (co-perpetrator of BCP38) :-) On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Alain Hebert

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Huasong Zhou
Maybe it was because of this: Global Internet Slows after 'biggest attack in history' http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636 Huasong Zhou Associate Kalorama Group, LLC 1000 Potomac Street, NW, Suite 350 Washington, D.C. 20007 Mobile: +1 763 221 6784 Email: huas...@kalorama.com

Re: BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Arturo Servin
And do not forget http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38 :) -as On 3/27/13 2:17 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: Please reference: http://openresolverproject.org/ http://spoofer.csail.mit.edu/ http://blog.cloudflare.com/deep-inside-a-dns-amplification-ddos-attack ...and

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Aftab Siddiqui
Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it worse. So, right now most of the traffic taking east bound routes. Who needs DDoS at this stage, these links are already chocked up :) Maybe it was because of

Re: BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
But of course. :-) Also, just saw this: http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet - ferg On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: And do not forget http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38 :) -as On 3/27/13 2:17

Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
http://blog.cloudflare.com/the-ddos-that-almost-broke-the-internet Yes: 120 gigabits/second, primarily of DNS amplification traffic. Still think it's optional to implement BCP38 pervasively? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink j...@baylink.com

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Marco Davids
Op 27-03-13 16:54, Owen DeLong schreef: It's been available in linux for a long time, just not in BIND… Not entirely true: http://www.redbarn.org/dns/ratelimits Here is a working ip6tales example: Tricky... There is also the 'hashlimit' module (at least for v4, not sure about v6), that may

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:51:35 -0500, Jack Bates said: They are not, and I can think of quite a few people who would stare blankly at you for making such a statement. Of course, I can think of plenty of people who we'd like to see implementing BCP38 concepts that would need you to define

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:54 AM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: It's been available in linux for a long time, just not in BIND… Here is a working ip6tales example: -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -s 2620:0:930::/48 -m state --state NEW -m udp -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Valdis Kletnieks valdis.kletni...@vt.edu On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 10:51:35 -0500, Jack Bates said: They are not, and I can think of quite a few people who would stare blankly at you for making such a statement. Of course, I can think of plenty of people who

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-03-27, at 14:52, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: I am very concerned about examples such as this possibly being implemented by a well intentioned sysadmin or neteng type without understanding their query load and patterns. bind with the rrl patch does log when things are

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Warren Bailey
Is someone pissed off at Spamhaus, or was the intention to packet them so hard their entire network ceased to exist so they can no longer offer DROP/RBL/xyz service? Seldom do hax0r nations target things without some type of justification. I don't really care who is being internet murdered, I

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Saku Ytti
On (2013-03-27 11:05 -0500), Jack Bates wrote: I'm not arguing that the process can't be done. The problem is, there are a number of networks that don't know it needs to be done and why, or they don't know how to do it. There are a number of networks that have no concept of scripting changes

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Joshua Goldbard
That was a really big attack. The scary part is that it's all DNS reflection, meaning the attackers only need 3Gbps of bandwidth to generate 300Gbps of DDoS. Imagine if they compromised some of the medium sized corporate networks along with these Botnets. I don't know if the exchanges could

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Warren Bailey wbai...@satelliteintelligencegroup.com wrote: Is someone pissed off at Spamhaus, or was the intention to packet them so hard their entire network ceased to exist so they can no longer offer DROP/RBL/xyz service? According to the New York Times it

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Jordan Michaels
You won't care who until the target is you. ;) Warm Regards, Jordan Michaels On 03/27/2013 12:09 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: Seldom do hax0r nations target things without some type of justification. I don't really care who is being internet murdered, I care why.

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Warren Bailey
As cyberbunker stops killing spamhaus and goes after Gilmore.. I think these are the guys who used to colo HavenCo after they burnt their platform down? I'm not sure how I feel about Cloudflare comparing being packeted to a nuclear bomb? After the packeting drys up, is there really total

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:18 PM, Joshua Goldbard j...@2600hz.com wrote: That was a really big attack. The scary part is that it's all DNS reflection, meaning the attackers only need 3Gbps of bandwidth to generate 300Gbps of DDoS. Imagine if they compromised some of the medium sized

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- b...@herrin.us wrote: From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the bad guy. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all_r=0

Enforcing Source Integrity: BCP38 and Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Eric M. Carroll
The root cause of high scale directed amplification attacks is the failure to assure the integrity of the source IP address. This failure leads to a large set of directed amplification attack vectors. BCP38 was written in 2000, coming up on its 13th anniversary. This root cause, and various

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the bad guy. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all_r=0

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Huasong Zhou
Try this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21954636 On 3/27/13 3:55 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: --- b...@herrin.us wrote: From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the bad guy.

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Warren Bailey
At least they compared it to a traffic jam. ;) From my Android phone on T-Mobile. The first nationwide 4G network. Original message From: Huasong Zhou huas...@kalorama.com Date: 03/27/2013 1:00 PM (GMT-08:00) To: sur...@mauigateway.com,nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re:

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 8da1853ce466b041b104c1caee00b3748fa4e...@chaxch01.corp.arin.net, John Curran writes: On Mar 27, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Jay Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: Indeed, but I have an even better example of how that's already done, that is probably pertinent. The National

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 8da1853ce466b041b104c1caee00b3748fa4e...@chaxch01.corp.arin.net, John Curran writes: Umm... How many North American ISP's/datacenters/web hosting firms were aware of the BCP 38 development as it was on-going, and

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- b...@herrin.us wrote: From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the bad guy. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/27/technology/internet/online-dispute-becomes-internet-snarling-attack.html?pagewanted=all_r=0

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Tony Finch
Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: My assessment is that the implementations I have seen are ready for production use, but I think it's understandable given the moving goalpoasts that some vendors have not yet promoted the code to be included in stable releases. It is in the current stable

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Tony Finch
Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: Tracking the clients would be a huge dataset and be especially complicated in clusters. The memory usage is guite manageable: for the BIND patch it is at most 40-80 bytes (for 32 or 64 bit machines) per request per second. You're doing well if you need a

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Scott Weeks
...Sven Olaf Kamphuis, an Internet activist who said he was a spokesman for the attackers... I wonder is he'll ever post here again as he has in the past. It probably would not go well for him if he did... scott

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Warren Bailey
Wasn't there a ton of drama with the SpamHaus guys a year or so ago regarding RBL's on NANOG? On 3/27/13 2:54 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: --- b...@herrin.us wrote: From: William Herrin b...@herrin.us According to the New York Times it was 300 gbps and Cyberbunker was the

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
quite a few EU to India cables are impacted right now 4/7 down. Sent from my iPad On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:14, Aftab Siddiqui aftab.siddi...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it's not just SMW4 outage, we've been witnessing serious issues on IMEWE for couple of weeks now and this outages just made it

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Tony Finch
Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: You'll also find that [DNS RRL] serves little purpose. In my experience it works extremely well. Yes it is possible to work around it, but you still need to stop the attacks that are happening now. It is good to make the attacker's job harder. 1) tcp RRL

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
that article is absolute rubbish. take with large pinch of salt, rockstar in hamster outfit type nonsense. $dayjob didn't lose any traffic during the period, some guys where affected because of the lottery of being on the same switch as couldfare. regards, Neil. On 27 Mar 2013, at 18:45, Jay

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Jack Bates
On 3/27/2013 4:49 PM, Tony Finch wrote: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: 3) BCP38 (in spirit) That should be deployed as well as RRL. Tony. If BCP38 was properly deployed, what would be the purpose of RRL outside of misbehaving clients or direct attacks against that one server? We

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 14:19:05 -0700, Paul Ferguson said: And there may even be some stick approaches to accompany the carrot, but some awareness is going to have to happen. Sing it from the mountain tops. http://www.sans.org/dosstep/roadmap.php Note the date. Note the list of

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jason Ackley
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@gmail.comwrote: Some people are going to have to step and add a few thousand more frequent flier miles and get out to various geographic constituencies, at various events, and start talking about this. And we need a lot more people

Re: BCP38 needs advertising

2013-03-27 Thread Alain Hebert
Noted. But today's contribution by Eric M. Caroll might end up on the front page =D. I got the domains... Now I just need a few free hours to setup something useful. As always, don't be shy to drop me contribution offlist. - Alain Hebert

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 3/27/13 2:46 PM, Warren Bailey wrote: Wasn't there a ton of drama with the SpamHaus guys a year or so ago regarding RBL's on NANOG? There's always someone who publicly flips out over being listed by a major DNSBL at least once a year. ~Seth

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 12:30:43PM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: Consider this a call-to-arms, in all aspects. Please. +1 No. Not enough. +10. But...our collective track record in responding in a timely and effective fashion to such calls is not very good. Twenty years ago we could have

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread John Curran
On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Umm... How many North American ISP's/datacenters/web hosting firms were aware of the BCP 38 development as it was on-going, and participated in some manner in its review? ... I'd say enough were aware. :-) 8.

Verizon Wireless security contact needed

2013-03-27 Thread nick hatch
Hi all, I just discovered a somewhat-exigent issue which affects confidentiality for Verizon Wireless customers. (PSTN / Voice) I'm failing at trying to find a Verizon Wireless security contact through normal means. If someone can provide a contact off-list it would be much appreciated. Thanks,

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Warren Bailey
I think the media fire about this will enlighten many c level executives. After that, it's a matter of them saying go do this. You can't get any traction if there isn't a perceived issue, from what I've seen anyways. I still think the ipv4 to 6 transition will require media outlets running

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Neil J. McRae
Via renesys http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-naval-forces-capture-3-scuba-divers-trying-to-sabotage-undersea-internet-cable/2013/03/27/dd2975ec-9725-11e2-a976-7eb906f9ed9b_story.html Sent from my iPhone On 27 Mar 2013, at 21:53, Neil J. McRae

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread John Curran
On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: Or worse, before some government somewhere decides to solve this problem for a value of solved involving (shudder) legislation. In general, governments have avoided regulating various aspects of the Internet, in part because of

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Tony Finch
Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: If BCP38 was properly deployed, what would be the purpose of RRL outside of misbehaving clients or direct attacks against that one server? If fictional scenario, irrelevant answer. Given the current situation, efforts to deploy both RRL and BCP38 in

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-03-27, at 17:59, Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: DNS is UDP for a reason. Not a great reason, as it turns out. But hindsight is 20/20. The infrastructure to switch it to TCP is prohibitive and completely destroys the anycast mechanisms. No. Joe

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAA=cXfrO3c8=UYZDExpiYsEhFJDup=gUMvO+d=u34-djw0a...@mail.gmail.com , Jason Ackley writes: On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 4:19 PM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@gmail.comwrote: Some people are going to have to step and add a few thousand more frequent flier miles and get out to various

Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS that almost broke the Internet

2013-03-27 Thread Avi Freedman
An important question... I recall a peering panel at an ISPCON in 1996 when the current Peering Badguys, BBN, were represented by John, who listened to a ton of bitching for an hour about the unfairness of it all and said (paraphrasing)... I understand you all have your opinions and desires

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 3/26/13, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Mar 26, 2013, at 9:51 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: Perhaps you should reframe your strategy as security problem, and show how providers have implemented BCP38, how it is such a common practice, that not implementing BCP38 may fall short of

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Arturo Servin
I am afraid you are right. It is going to cost us money and time, but unfortunately I do not see another way out. /as On 3/27/13 6:19 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: As I mentioned on another list earlier today, let's face it -- this is going to require a large-scale, very public,

Re: Line cut in Mediterranean?

2013-03-27 Thread Steven Bellovin
The BBC has a similar story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21963100 On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Neil J. McRae n...@domino.org wrote: Via renesys

Re: Open Resolver Problems

2013-03-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:59:16 -0500, Jack Bates said: On 3/27/2013 4:49 PM, Tony Finch wrote: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net wrote: 3) BCP38 (in spirit) That should be deployed as well as RRL. Tony. If BCP38 was properly deployed, what would be the purpose of RRL outside of

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Secondly you reduce your legal liability. IANAL, but this has yet to be proven, AFAIK. One approach that hasn't been tried, to my knowledge, is educating the insurance companies about how they can potentially reduce *their* liability for

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Mar 28, 2013, at 6:01 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Secondly you reduce your legal liability. IANAL, but this has yet to be proven, AFAIK. One approach that hasn't been tried, to my knowledge, is educating the

Re: BCP38 - Internet Death Penalty

2013-03-27 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Mar 28, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: Actually, I do know someone who is in the digital insurance (for lack of a better term) business, and although I just met them a few weeks ago, somehow I get the feeling that it is a growth industry. I think this concept applies to