Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 09:42, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: I don't think that John (who is probably no more clueful than Jane) knows about Google Public DNS either. It's less about Jane and John than it is about a number of techs and IT folk who are not interested in global Internet operations. Those fol

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:37:02AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote a message of 18 lines which said: > > Let me repeat that there is a service which is officially intended to > > be pinged/queried/etc, the RIPE Anchors. > > Yeah, but how do we get out there in a manner that Jane can easily find and >

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 09:30, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Let me repeat that there is a service which is officially intended to be pinged/queried/etc, the RIPE Anchors. Yeah, but how do we get out there in a manner that Jane can easily find and use, like she does 8.8.8.8? RIPE's probes are great, but

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 09:08:04AM +0200, Mark Tinka wrote a message of 25 lines which said: > It's terrible behaviour, but unless we offer a more "official" > alternative, it won't end. Let me repeat that there is a service which is officially intended to be pinged/queried/etc, the RIPE Anch

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 07:32, Matthew Walster wrote: Do a DNS query. You don't even have to randomise the id number, just query for something that will have a small set of results (so, not the root) and ensure checking is disabled. For 8.8.8.8, I'm guessing "dns.google" is probably an excellent target.

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 07:24, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: The entrenched, pervasive, Internet-wide behavior used to be to use any convenient SMTP server to relay mail too. The entrenched, pervasive, -wide behavior used to be to smoke on planes too. Things change with the times. Yep. And we woul

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 07:24, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: The entrenched, pervasive, Internet-wide behavior used to be to use any convenient SMTP server to relay mail too. The entrenched, pervasive, -wide behavior used to be to smoke on planes too. Things change with the times. Yep. And we woul

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Matthew Walster
(as posted to outages) On Wed, 9 Feb 2022, 04:53 Mark Tinka, wrote: > It is clear that a number of Internet users find pinging "reliable" IP > addresses useful, regardless of whether it actually is or isn't, or > whether it's ethical or not. > > Like we have done with other public services such

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 2/8/22 4:13 PM, Mark Delany wrote: Hard to disagree with "their network, their rules", but we're talking about an entrenched, pervasive, Internet-wide behaviorial issue. The entrenched, pervasive, Internet-wide behavior used to be to use any convenient SMTP server to relay mail too. The e

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Grant Taylor via NANOG
On 2/8/22 3:48 PM, Mike Hammett wrote: I was more here to find ammunition to show someone that they were doing something wrong than to build anything myself. I've long referred to finding rules / RFCs / documents / test results / etc. as loading small 22 caliber shells for the powers that be t

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Tinka
On 2/9/22 01:13, Mark Delany wrote: So. Question. Will making ping/ICMP mostly useless for home-gamers and lazy network admins change internet behaviour for the better? Or will it have unintended consequences such as an evolutionary adaptation by the tools resulting in yet more unwanted tra

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Hammett
What irked me today was an equipment manufacturer. I found out because Google had some issues handling ICMP to their DNS resolvers today and some of my devices started spazzing out. There's no reason this manufacturer doesn't just setup a variety their own servers to handle this, other than b

Re: Fiber contractor in Washington state

2022-02-08 Thread Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE
Interestingly I’m looking for the same thing at the moment, need a lateral and a few blocks trenched. Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASCE 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC CEO l...@6by7.net "The only fully end-to-end encrypted global telecommunications company in the world.” FCC Licens

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Lady Benjamin Cannon of Glencoe
Orly? 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10937 ttl=112 time=44.408 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10938 ttl=112 time=43.480 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10939 ttl=112 time=57.839 ms 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=10940 ttl=112 time=38.816 ms -LB Ms. Lady Benjamin PD Cannon of Glencoe, ASC

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Ross Tajvar
Meraki finally allowed an operator to stop this a few years ago, but it's still the default. On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 6:34 PM Mike Lewinski via NANOG wrote: > Anyone swinging a clue-by-four it going to hit Meraki real hard. > > > https://community.meraki.com/t5/Switching/Switch-Constantly-Pings-8-

Fiber contractor in Washington state

2022-02-08 Thread Ross Tajvar
Hi all, I'm looking for a fiber contractor to trench some fiber on private property and then splice it inside. The work will be in Washington state, north of Spokane. Does anyone have recommendations? On- and off-list welcome. Thanks, Ross

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread William Herrin
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 2:49 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I was more here to find ammunition to show someone that they were doing > something wrong than to build anything myself. Someone once challenged me to find documentation showing that the Java garbage collector does not (and is not supposed to)

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Randy Bush
> I was more here to find ammunition to show someone that they were > doing something wrong than to build anything myself. this is just s classic. mind if i quote you? randy

RE: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Lewinski via NANOG
Anyone swinging a clue-by-four it going to hit Meraki real hard. https://community.meraki.com/t5/Switching/Switch-Constantly-Pings-8-8-8-8/m-p/31491

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Peter Beckman
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, Christopher Morrow wrote: you know what you COULD do though... probe it with DNS requests, and then you know, test the service being offered, and still know that 'the internet is not on fire'. What?!? Use UDP to test the Internet? How would you even know if the Internet w

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mark Delany
On 08Feb22, Mike Hammett allegedly wrote: > Some people need a clue by four and I'm looking to build my collection of > them. > "Google services, including Google Public DNS, are not designed as ICMP > network testing services" Hard to disagree with "their network, their rules", but we're tal

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Right, someone could do that. I was more here to find ammunition to show someone that they were doing something wrong than to build anything myself. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From:

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 4:05 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > Some people need a clue by four and I'm looking to build my collection of > them. > > > Someone on Outages was nice enough to send this about someone else's > thread: > https://peering.google.com/#/learn-more/faq > > "Google services, including

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Some people need a clue by four and I'm looking to build my collection of them. Someone on Outages was nice enough to send this about someone else's thread: https://peering.google.com/#/learn-more/faq "Google services, including Google Public DNS, are not designed as ICMP network testing

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Tom Beecher
> > Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you > shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping destinations? I'm not sure that an ' authoritative resource ' is really needed. It should be generally understood at this point in the internet's life that networks

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Lukas Tribus
Hello, On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 18:56, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Yes, pinging public DNS servers is bad. > > Googling didn't help me find anything. > > Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you > shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping destinations? This w

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Hammett
I'm not looking to do the pinging myself. I have my own destinations I use. I also use the RIPE system on occasion. - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" To: "Mike Ham

Re: Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 11:56:44AM -0600, Mike Hammett wrote a message of 140 lines which said: > Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying > you shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping > destinations? Why not using RIPE Anchors, which are made to be pi

LLDP Source MAC

2022-02-08 Thread Crist Clark
Came across some endpoint behavior that caused some confusion with a MAC authentication bypass (MAB) setup, and I was wondering if this is some kind of well known behavior. The endpoints (Pure storage arrays) are using the expected MAC addresses, both fixed and a “virtual” shared MAC for 99.9% of

Spoofer Report for NANOG for Jan 2022

2022-02-08 Thread CAIDA Spoofer Project
In response to feedback from operational security communities, CAIDA's source address validation measurement project (https://spoofer.caida.org) is automatically generating monthly reports of ASes originating prefixes in BGP for systems from which we received packets with a spoofed source address.

Authoritative Resources for Public DNS Pinging

2022-02-08 Thread Mike Hammett
Yes, pinging public DNS servers is bad. Googling didn't help me find anything. Are there any authoritative resources from said organizations saying you shouldn't use their servers for your persistent ping destinations? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Inter

GTT contact

2022-02-08 Thread Brian Turnbow via NANOG
Hello everyone, Is there someone from GTT on list that can contact me in pvt? For over a week we have been seeing loss and latency between Frankfurt and Milan as reported in outages by Lukas https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2022-February/014230.html After a week of TT updates and es