Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-15 Thread Nathan Malynn
Here's a question that's been bugging me the whole thread, and it's a bit of a newbie one. How is this different than someone faking SMTP headers to make it seem like an email came from my domain when it didn't? I'm talking in terms of morals, obviously; I understand the technique is different. On

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 15, 2009, at 3:54 AM, Andy Davidson wrote: On 14 Jan 2009, at 16:06, Jeroen Massar wrote: Simon Lockhart wrote: (Yes, I'm in the minority that thinks that Randy hasn't done anything bad) Nah, I agree with Randy's experiment too. People should protect their networks better and this is

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-15 Thread John Payne
[mailto:j...@sackheads.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:57 PM To: Michienne Dixon Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Michienne Dixon wrote: Interesting - So as a cyber criminal - I could setup a router, start

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-15 Thread Andy Davidson
On 14 Jan 2009, at 16:06, Jeroen Massar wrote: Simon Lockhart wrote: (Yes, I'm in the minority that thinks that Randy hasn't done anything bad) Nah, I agree with Randy's experiment too. People should protect their networks better and this is clearly showing that there are a lot of vulnera

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread kris foster
ubject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Jan 14, 2009, at 10:50 AM, Michienne Dixon wrote: Interesting - So as a cyber criminal - I could setup a router, start announcing AS 16733, 18872, and maybe 6966 for good measure and their routers would ignore my announceme

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Michienne Dixon
t; liNKCity > 312 Armour Rd. > North Kansas City, MO 64116 > www.linkcity.org > (816) 412-7990 > > -Original Message- > From: Simon Lockhart [mailto:si...@slimey.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:07 AM > To: Hank Nussbacher > Cc: NANOG list > Subject

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:22 PM, wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:23 EST, William Herrin said: >> It's more like one owner in a condominium deciding to "test" the fire >> alarm without first asking the condo association or letting the other >> owners know about it ahead of time. > > On the othe

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread John Payne
y.org (816) 412-7990 -Original Message- From: Simon Lockhart [mailto:si...@slimey.org] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:07 AM To: Hank Nussbacher Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wr

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Murtaza
Knowing the Randy's research, i am sure that Randy will be doing great work this time too. Being a network researcher I can not wait more to see results of this experiments. But, even then I dont think it was a real smart thing to do without prior permission. > And yes, it applies in the network

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:47:23 EST, William Herrin said: > It's more like one owner in a condominium deciding to "test" the fire > alarm without first asking the condo association or letting the other > owners know about it ahead of time. On the other hand, pre-announcing "We will have a fire drill

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Jack Bates
Michienne Dixon wrote: Interesting - So as a cyber criminal - I could setup a router, start announcing AS 16733, 18872, and maybe 6966 for good measure and their routers would ignore my announcements and IP ranges that I siphoned from searching IANA? Hm... Would that also prevent them from acce

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Jeroen Massar
Simon Lockhart [mailto:si...@slimey.org] wrote: > On Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: >> What if, by doing some research experiment, the researcher discovers >> some unknown and latent bug in IOS or JunOS that causes much of the >> Internet to go belly up? 1 in a bil

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Michienne Dixon
Abley; Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: NANOG list Subject: RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 Um.. no. I can't speak for the others on this list who were effected like us - but we take this stuff very seriously and respectively you would too *if* you had a previous legit i

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread bmanning
MO 64116 > www.linkcity.org > (816) 412-7990 > > -Original Message- > From: Simon Lockhart [mailto:si...@slimey.org] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 2:07 AM > To: Hank Nussbacher > Cc: NANOG list > Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Michienne Dixon
Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > What if, by doing some research experiment, the researcher discovers > some unknown and latent bug in IOS or JunOS that causes much of the > Internet to

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread William Herrin
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:51 PM, Michienne Dixon wrote: > I would consider this analogous to a customer testing their home alarm > system and not letting the alarm company know about the test. It's more like one owner in a condominium deciding to "test" the fire alarm without first asking the con

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Randy Bush
Yes, but I see that Randy has switched over to 3130 3130, when olaf first tested our his code in lab, it was against a quagga, which would not accept that. matt petach, in private email, asked why we were not doing it. as it seemed to be in spec, olaf did it against a crisco, and it works.

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Jack Bates
kris foster wrote: On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: On Tue, January 13, 2009 8:57 pm, Joe Abley wrote: The fact that I choose to stick 701 in an AS_PATH attribute on a prefix I advertise in order to stop that prefix from propagating into 701 is entirely my own business, and i

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread kris foster
On Jan 14, 2009, at 2:50 AM, Tim Franklin wrote: On Tue, January 13, 2009 8:57 pm, Joe Abley wrote: The fact that I choose to stick 701 in an AS_PATH attribute on a prefix I advertise in order to stop that prefix from propagating into 701 is entirely my own business, and it's a practice which

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Tim Franklin
On Tue, January 13, 2009 8:57 pm, Joe Abley wrote: > The fact that I choose to stick 701 in an AS_PATH attribute on a > prefix I advertise in order to stop that prefix from propagating into > 701 is entirely my own business, and it's a practice which, although > apparently not commonplace, has bee

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Wed Jan 14, 2009 at 09:59:14AM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > What if, by doing some research experiment, the researcher discovers some > unknown and latent bug in IOS or JunOS that causes much of the Internet to > go belly up? 1 in a billion chance, but nonetheless, a headsup would have >

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-14 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 11:27 AM 13-01-09 -0800, Matthew Kaufman wrote: That's why *I* wouldn't have run such an experiment myself, because there's just too many cases these days where people have gotten convicted of doing things like putting the wrong integer in their MySpace profile. What if, by doing some resea

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Jack Bates
Sandy Murphy wrote: The sidr wg is working on protection of the origination of the route - so the origin AS in the AS_PATH is known to be authorized to originate routes to the prefix. That's not full AS_PATH protection. sidr is not doing full AS_PATH protection. Yet. I always considered AS

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:39, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: See my earlier posts about using someone else's resources without their permission or even notifying them, then telling them it is OK because they shouldn't care anyway. I read them. Nobody is using anybody else's resources. None of the

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Darryl Dunkin
-Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 12:37 To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 > I'd call it a sign that people need to be more selective about what

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Stewart
Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:37 PM To: Patrick W. Gilmore Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:32, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Jan 13, 2009, at 3

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Sandy Murphy
>> It should be pointed out that pre-provisioned AS_Path filters and >> prefix-lists would actually be effective at defeating this and >> preventing someone who is actually malicious from using this >> technique. This is an excellent argument for implementing SIDR... > >Finally we agree. Al

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
Seriously, you believe it's OK to blame the guy whose ASN was spoofed for spending too long researching it? I was _literally_ shaking my head when I read that. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:36 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:32, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Were the victim Heh, if only there was any sign of a victim. The guy who spent time & effort investigating why his AS was misused announced it h

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13 Jan 2009, at 15:32, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Were the victim Heh, if only there was any sign of a victim. The guy who spent time & effort investigating why his AS was misused announced it here. I'd call that at least a sign. I'd ca

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:30 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Were the victim Heh, if only there was any sign of a victim. The guy who spent time & effort investigating why his AS was misused announced it here. I'd call that at least a sign. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 13 Jan 2009, at 11:12, Leo Bicknell wrote: Loop detection kicks in only when there is a loop. You see your own ASN coming back to you. In the case we're discussing THERE IS NO LOOP. Someone is mis-using this feature to control the propagation of routes. Surely controlling the propagatio

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Fortunately, people who run networks are not clueless ("jurors"?). Or at least they are not supposed to be clueless. If Randy were to be charged under any of the various computer abuse statutes (which, given the history of their (ab)use, he certainly could be), juro

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: How can anyone seriously argue the ASN owner is somehow wrong and keep a straight face? How can anyone else who actually runs a network not see that as ridiculous? Speaking purely as an outside

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Filtering and other manipulation happened on your router, prepending my ASN is putting that information into every router. That seems to be a serious qualitative difference to me. Do you disagree? I think the

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > How can anyone seriously argue the ASN owner is somehow wrong and keep > a straight face? How can anyone else who actually runs a network not > see that as ridiculous? Speaking purely as an outsider who hasn't had to pull such jack moves with

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:53:42AM -0800, David Barak wrote: > --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Jared Mauch wrote: > > Does that mean that I hijacked their identiy and forged > > it? What level of trust do you place in the AS_PATH for your > > routing, debugging and > > decision making process? > > AS_P

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 1:11 PM, David Barak wrote: --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Personally, I would be upset if someone injected a route with my ASN in the AS_PATH without my permission. Why? Is this a theoretical "because it's ugly" complaint, or is there a reaso

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Matthew Kaufman
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: Filtering and other manipulation happened on your router, prepending my ASN is putting that information into every router. That seems to be a serious qualitative difference to me. Do you disagree? I think the basic disagreement is whether you think that "your stuf

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread David Barak
--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > > AS_PATH != identity, and I would not recommend loading > the latter onto the former. > > We disagree. When I am researching something, I frequently > look at ASNs in the path to figure out not just where but > who controls the path. Oh, I cert

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 13, 2009, at 11:53 AM, David Barak wrote: --- On Tue, 1/13/09, Jared Mauch wrote: No, they are both victims. If I inject a path that purports there is an edge between two networks which are engaged in a bitter dispute, (i'll use cogent & sprint as an example) - _1239_174_ that

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote: > On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Joe Abley wrote: > > >> On 2009-01-13, at 00:05, Paul Wall wrote: >> >> Also, I'd agree >>> announcing other peoples' ASNs, >>> >> >> How do you announce an ASN? >> >> > Clearly it means to use someone else'

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On Jan 13, 2009, at 6:34 AM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2009-01-13, at 00:05, Paul Wall wrote: Also, I'd agree announcing other peoples' ASNs, How do you announce an ASN? Clearly it means to use someone else's ASN without authorization in a way that is not intended by the org/person it I'd a

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread David Barak
--- On Tue, 1/13/09, Jared Mauch wrote: > > No, they are both victims. If I inject a path that > purports > there is an edge between two networks which are engaged in > a bitter > dispute, (i'll use cogent & sprint as an example) - > _1239_174_ that may > create a situation where some

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:55:40AM -0500, John Payne wrote: > I guess the problem is that AS PATH is overloaded and people forget > that the primary purpose is loop-avoidance. Everything else is > secondary and much like reading Received headers in SMTP mail, you > reall

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Paul Stewart
tuff. Paul -Original Message- From: jim deleskie [mailto:deles...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 10:34 AM To: Jared Mauch Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 Jared, Fine which makes it an interesting data point and something to loo

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread jim deleskie
Jared, Fine which makes it an interesting data point and something to look at after lunch when I'm not doing something else kinda issue. Not something I'm going to treat as a P1 and drop everything work or real life related for. I'm not say it shouldn't be looked it, just that in the grand schem

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Barak said: > I completely agree with Jim: I have no idea why alert thresholds are > set to a level of sensitivity which would cause this to become a "must > be dealt with this minute" sort of issue. What exactly is the threat > potential of someone else's IP space being a

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 07:00:34AM -0800, David Barak wrote: > If the concern was a Pilosov/Kapela style hijack, wouldn't the first thing > you'd check be what the address range was? That would lead you straight to > Randy, and that should have cleared up the matter straightaway. Remember: > t

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread David Barak
--- On Mon, 1/12/09, deles...@gmail.com wrote: > This was a test using unassigned IP block, unless I'm > reading it wrong. If a noc alerted on this it should have > still be a low priority issue. I don't see any issues > with the way this was carried out at all. > > -jim I completely agree

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-01-13, at 00:05, Paul Wall wrote: Also, I'd agree announcing other peoples' ASNs, How do you announce an ASN? Joe

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-13 Thread John Payne
On Jan 13, 2009, at 12:05 AM, Paul Wall wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: You really should make some friends Randy. He is, on Second Life. Seriously though... I've not seen any discussion of the application of "allowas-in", a valid neighbor configuration under c

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Wall
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > You really should make some friends Randy. He is, on Second Life. Seriously though... I've not seen any discussion of the application of "allowas-in", a valid neighbor configuration under certain topologies/scenarios, as relates to impact to

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Jack Bates
Nathan Ward wrote: A suggestion I made to Randy at APRICOT in early 2007 when he was presenting his BGP beacon bogon filter detection stuff[1] was that he could use AS_PATH poisoning to detect broken filters and topology between two ASes, not just the best route back to him from each AS. I th

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:20:28AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > of course, we're sorry we set off folk's broken alarm systems :-) [ > sense of humor required, leo ] Ah, I get the smiley this time. That's the indication you're not serious about the sentence you just wrote! Ah

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Nathan Ward
On 13/01/2009, at 12:32 PM, Jack Bates wrote: I suspect part of this test is to determine if there are enough defaults to allow traffic through even though the route isn't being processed by certain networks (ie, it does not good to poison AS_PATH if defaults in general will allow DOS traff

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michael Hallgren
Le lundi 12 janvier 2009 à 18:23 -0500, Joe Provo a écrit : > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:13:10PM -0600, Michienne Dixon wrote: > [snip] > > Easy - Refer all anomalies that do not the result of a direct outage to > > Randy. :D > > ...if he's the contact or expressly mentioned in the registration,

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Stewart wrote: The alerts we got were because our AS number was showing up somewhere else in the world. Whether it's "legit" IP space or not - it still warrants investigation on a high priority from my perspective. Given the use of the ASN, I'm surprised that you place high priority of

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 05:13:10PM -0600, Michienne Dixon wrote: [snip] > Easy - Refer all anomalies that do not the result of a direct outage to > Randy. :D ...if he's the contact or expressly mentioned in the registration, that makes sense. Oh look, he is. %whonum 174.128.31.0 OrgName:Am

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
Now that doesn't mean other operators can't put in a lightning talk about the impact or 'event' this triggered in their own NOC environments along with what they recommend operators do to reduce the spun cycles great idea! as i was about to send to someone else with a thinner skin than you :)

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
ne Dixon; NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 This was a test using unassigned IP block, unless I'm reading it wrong. If a noc alerted on this it should have still be a low priority issue. I don't see any issues with the way this was carried out at all

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
Now that doesn't mean other operators can't put in a lightning talk about the impact or 'event' this triggered in their own NOC environments along with what they recommend operators do to reduce the spun cycles Easy - Refer all anomalies that do not the result of a direct outage to Randy. :D

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Ren Provo
Fair enough. Unfortunate, and I'll miss you in .DR, but understood. Now that doesn't mean other operators can't put in a lightning talk about the impact or 'event' this triggered in their own NOC environments along with what they recommend operators do to reduce the spun cycles Cheers, -ren On

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
:patr...@ianai.net] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 5:00 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Michienne Dixon wrote: > But isn't this method kind of related to how an network from the > Mediterranean/Mid-east went abo

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread deleskie
ubject: RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 Sent: Jan 12, 2009 6:55 PM But isn't this method kind of related to how an network from the Mediterranean/Mid-east went about blocking what they felt was undesirable/offensive content from entering their network? - Michienn

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 5:55 PM, Michienne Dixon wrote: But isn't this method kind of related to how an network from the Mediterranean/Mid-east went about blocking what they felt was undesirable/offensive content from entering their network? No. -- TTFN, patrick

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
Could you please put in a lightning talk for this experiment? It would be great to hear more about this in .DR. We're accepting submissions now for lightning talks on Monday the 26th of January. a - i will not be in dr. i really wanted to support the dr meeting, but it's hard to justify aft

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
64116 www.linkcity.org (816) 412-7990 -Original Message- From: Randy Bush [mailto:ra...@psg.com] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 4:47 PM To: Paul Stewart Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On 09.01.13 07:42, Paul Stewart wrote: > For us, it was annoy

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Ren Provo
Hi Randy (and the cast of characters on this thread), Could you please put in a lightning talk for this experiment? It would be great to hear more about this in .DR. We're accepting submissions now for lightning talks on Monday the 26th of January. http://www.nanogpc.org is the best place. Che

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
ce strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On 2009-01-12, at 16:16, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > People have been doing it forever. However, it has been considered > sketchy at best. This all seems highly subjective. Considered that way by some, sure (including you, it seems). In my experience pr

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
On 09.01.13 07:42, Paul Stewart wrote: For us, it was annoying - we look for prefix hijackings or what appear to be. i think herein lies the rub. it is not prefix hijacking and in no way should it appear that way to you. i suggest tuning your detectors. i am told that path poisoning is use

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
- From: Christian Koch [mailto:christ...@broknrobot.com] Sent: January 12, 2009 5:34 PM To: NANOG list Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 > > ] part of the experiment is to measure the difference between the amount > ] of nanog mail lorenzo drew in 200

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Christian Koch
> > ] part of the experiment is to measure the difference between the amount > ] of nanog mail lorenzo drew in 2005 by pre-announcing with the amount we > ] get in 2009 while not pre-announcing. :) > > This statement is an admission that he set out to annoy people, > annoy them enough they would

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
] part of the experiment is to measure the difference between the amount ] of nanog mail lorenzo drew in 2005 by pre-announcing with the amount we ] get in 2009 while not pre-announcing. :) This statement is an admission that he set out to annoy people, annoy them enough they would complain on a

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:51:36PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: > Randy's application, and Lorenzo's before him also seem like short- > term applications designed to explore answering operational questions. > > Just because something is generally not used, or even if it's only >

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Joe Provo
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 04:51:36PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: [snip] > In my experience prepending someone else's AS to a prefix has only > been useful operationally only as a short-term, emergency measure > (e.g. when trying to avoid a black-hole between two remote ASes, > neither of whom shows

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-01-12, at 16:16, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: People have been doing it forever. However, it has been considered sketchy at best. This all seems highly subjective. Considered that way by some, sure (including you, it seems). In my experience prepending someone else's AS to a prefix

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
Might be helpful to update the WHOIS data: arin's good folk say it will be updated in tonight's (stateside night) run. randy

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > On 09.01.13 05:32, Michienne Dixon wrote: > >> guy's gotta sleep some time. it's 04:40 here. >>> >> My apologizes for jumping the gun. >> > > i demand a full refund! :) > > but that's about the best use for guns i can think of. > > randy > >

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
If this were not Randy doing a research project, but, say, Cogent prepending the ASN of $LATEST_DEPEERED_NETWORK on announcements to Verio, how different would the tone of this thread have been? yep, tools can be used for both good and bad. randy

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jack Bates: > Florian Weimer wrote: >> I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into >> routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can, >> obviously, but you shouldn't.) > > Actually, the placement of the ASN is exactly what they need to do the > test, a

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:12 PM, Joe Abley wrote: On 2009-01-12, at 15:39, Florian Weimer wrote: So does "academic" mean "unethical" these days? I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can, obviously, but yo

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-01-12, at 15:39, Florian Weimer wrote: So does "academic" mean "unethical" these days? I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can, obviously, but you shouldn't.) The AS_PATH attribute is a loo

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Jack Bates
Florian Weimer wrote: I think this is over the line. You can't put other people's IDs into routing data on production networks. (Well, technically you can, obviously, but you shouldn't.) Actually, the placement of the ASN is exactly what they need to do the test, as it is treated as a routin

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Florian Weimer
* Randy Bush: > On 09.01.13 03:40, Michienne Dixon wrote: >> I'm not entirely certain what is going on but has anyone noticed some >> strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24? > > see http://psg.com/173-174/ So does "academic" mean "unethical" these days? I think this is over the line. You can

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
On 09.01.13 05:32, Michienne Dixon wrote: guy's gotta sleep some time. it's 04:40 here. My apologizes for jumping the gun. i demand a full refund! :) but that's about the best use for guns i can think of. randy

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Josh Fiske
please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Paul Stewart [mailto:pstew...@nexicomgroup.net] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:29 PM To: Michienne Dixon; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
. Abbas; Michienne Dixon; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On 09.01.13 03:52, Paul Stewart wrote: > Same here.. got a notice this morning and while it's false, I still > have no response from Randy neither on this matter.. guy's

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
On 09.01.13 03:52, Paul Stewart wrote: Same here.. got a notice this morning and while it's false, I still have no response from Randy neither on this matter.. guy's gotta sleep some time. it's 04:40 here. if you wrote me directly, you would have a response by now. almost to the bottom of m

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Randy Bush
On 09.01.13 03:40, Michienne Dixon wrote: I'm not entirely certain what is going on but has anyone noticed some strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24? see http://psg.com/173-174/ randy

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
next time before wasting a lot of people's time... Paul -Original Message- From: Michienne Dixon [mailto:mdi...@nkc.org] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:20 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 The IAR was the source of my notice

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Edward B. DREGER
MSA> Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:48:42 + MSA> From: Majdi S. Abbas MSA> More seriously, this is indeed reachability research. Try emailing MSA> the AS 3130 contacts although I'd imagine Randy will see this. Why not do this in a lab instead? ;-) Eddy -- Everquick Internet - http://www.everqu

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
ajdi S. Abbas; Michienne Dixon; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 At some point 3130 announced these prefixes, and is now prepending other ASes to them. Pretty Good BGP (and hence the IAR) sees them as prefix hijacks. If you'd like to see the

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Kevin Oberman
enne Dixon > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Michienne Dixon wrote: > > I'm not entirely certain what is going on but has anyone noticed some > > strange announcements

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Josh Karlin
to notify us first... especially on something as major as a > prefix hijacking (potentially) > > Paul > > > > -Original Message- > From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:m...@latt.net] > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:49 PM > To: Michienne Dixon > Cc: nanog@nanog.org &g

RE: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Stewart
ially) Paul -Original Message- From: Majdi S. Abbas [mailto:m...@latt.net] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:49 PM To: Michienne Dixon Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24 On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Michienne Dixon wrote: >

Re: Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:40:42PM -0600, Michienne Dixon wrote: > I'm not entirely certain what is going on but has anyone noticed some > strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24? > > I received a hijack notice that my AS (AS11708) was announcing the above > IP range. I verified that I was not

Anyone notice strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24

2009-01-12 Thread Michienne Dixon
I'm not entirely certain what is going on but has anyone noticed some strange announcements for 174.128.31.0/24? I received a hijack notice that my AS (AS11708) was announcing the above IP range. I verified that I was not when I started noticing some strange announcements for that range. Around