Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, in the last 24 hours we received two denial of service attacks with something like 6-8GBit volume. It did not harm us too much, but e.g. one of our upstreams got his Amsix-Port exploded. With our upstreams we have remote-blackhole sessions runnin

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG wrote: > - - What do you think about such service? > - - Would you/your ASN participate in such a service? > - - Do you see some kind of usefull feature in such a service? > - - Do you have any comments? Ah. rbl.maps.vix.com from about a d

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
would this itself not be a dos path? randy

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Hi Jens, I think we are in the same boat. We suffered the same problem often, on a lower magnitude, but if a project like this exists those DDoS could even be almost near zero. This is somewhat similar to what Spamcop, and other folks do with SPAM today, but applied on a diferent scope, say, B

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
In that way, Spamcop and other folks are DOS'ing for years aswell. And in fact, by denying things around, they are just scrubing and filtering, to make our day happier, avoiding huge masses of spam and useless crap. I don't see it the way you do. A project like this, like also spamcop, are gre

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Hi Suresh, But in the meanwhile, a decade later, it does not longer exist. At least, i can't reach that host, and i was unable to find working documentation on google of how about this project works, today. In fact, the first link that google gave out, says that this project is dead at least 2

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:57:32 +0100, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG said: > Therefore I had the following idea: Why not taking one of my old routers and > set it up as blackhole-service. Then everyone who is interested could set up a > session to there and > > 1.) announce /32 (/128) routes out of his pre

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
DDoS drones - especially with botnets - can produce a really large zone To start with google "spamhaus drop list". Then look at the cbl and see if you think its worth using as a bgp feed On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > Hi Suresh, > > But in the meanwhile, a d

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: How do you vet proposed new entries to make sure that some miscreant doesn't DoS a legitimate site by claiming it is in need of black-holing? Note that it's a different problem space than a bogon BGP feed or a spam-source BGP feed - if the Cymru guys take another 6

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom
Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. We want to have a Sink-BGP-BL, based on Destination. Imagine, i as an ISP, host a particular server that is getting nn Gbps of DDoS attack. I null route it, and start adver

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Vixie
wrote: > > > - - What do you think about such service? > > > - - Would you/your ASN participate in such a service? > > > - - Do you see some kind of usefull feature in such a service? > > > - - Do you have any comments? - "Suresh Ramasubramanian" wrote: > > Ah. rbl.maps.vix.com from about a

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Skywing
From: Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 07:13 To: Jens Ott - PlusServer AG Cc: nanog Subject: Re: Global Blackhole Service Hi Jens, I think we are in the same boat. We suffered the same problem often, on a lower magnitude, but if a project like this exists those DDoS cou

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
c from IPs listed with that community to the blackhole RR destination(s) everywhere in there network. BR Jens > > - S > > -Original Message- > From: Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 07:13 > To: Jens Ott - PlusServer AG > Cc: nanog >

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:41:41 + (WET) Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, > and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. > > We want to have a Sink-BGP-BL, based on Destination. > > Imagine, i as an ISP, host a part

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 @jack: sorry for duplicate ... pressed reply instead of reply-all ;) Jack Bates schrieb: > valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > Presumably, the route server would have to have the same guidelines as > issued by service providers. ie, /32 networks injected

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Vixie wrote: i think Spamhaus and Cymru are way ahead of you in implementing such a thing, and it's likely that there are even commercial alternatives to Trend Micro although i have not kept up on those details. I think there's a misunderstanding from what I've read about what is being bl

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven M. Bellovin schrieb: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:41:41 + (WET) > Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: > >> Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, >> and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. >> >> We want

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Tico
Jens, I would be interested in participating with a destination blackhole service, so long as peers were authenticated and only authorized to advertise /32s out of space that they are assigned -- hopefully the same OrgID is used for the ASN as the IP allocations. However, a blackhole service

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In other words, a legitimate prefix hijacking service... Absolutely, NOT. The origin AS will still be the AS that controls the IP space. In fact, I think SBGP would be great for a layout like this to secure down the injections. That being said, prefix lists with md5

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Paul Vixie
blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request this, since they know they can't withstand the attack and don't want to be held responsibl

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
tools. _Experience_ has also demonstrated that you DO NOT let the bad guys know about the details of what you do to fight them. The people who DOS your network are most like know - if not already on NANOG! All of you what are getting fired up about a "Global Blackhole Service" . 1. Mak

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Jester
Listen online to my favorite hip hop radio station http://www.Jellyradio.com On Feb 13, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastruct

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Barry Raveendran Greene
2009 9:23 AM > To: Paul Vixie > Cc: na...@merit.edu > Subject: Re: Global Blackhole Service > > Paul Vixie wrote: > > i think Spamhaus and Cymru are way ahead of you in > implementing such a > > thing, and it's likely that there are even commercial > altern

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jack Bates
Paul Vixie wrote: blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're saying the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect the infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request this, since they know they can't withstand the attack and don't want t

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jack Bates schrieb: > Paul Vixie wrote: > > Do you have a miraculous way to stop DDOS? Is there now a way to quickly > and efficiently track down forged packets? Is there a remedy to shutting > down the *known* botnets, not to mention the unknown ones

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're >> saying >> the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect >> the >> infrastructure. and you're saying victims will request

RE: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Jake Mertel
: Global Blackhole Service On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> blackholing victims is an interesting economics proposition. you're >> saying >> the attacker must always win but that they must not be allowed to affect >> the

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Florian Weimer
* Valdis Kletnieks: > On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:57:32 +0100, Jens Ott - PlusServer AG said: >> Therefore I had the following idea: Why not taking one of my old routers and >> set it up as blackhole-service. Then everyone who is interested could set up >> a >> session to there and >> >> 1.) announce

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
eventually, the rpki will give you the first half, authentication of the owner of the ip space. this leaves, as smb hinted, securing the request path from the black-hole requestor to the service and of the service to the users. smb: > You can't do this without authoritative knowledge of exactly w

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-13 Thread Ricardo Oliveira
Nuno et all, Count me in for this.. Cheers, --Ricardo http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~rveloso On Feb 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom wrote: Ok, however, what i am talking about is a competelly diferent thing, and i think that my thoughts are alligned with Jens. We want to have a Si

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009 15:57:32 +0100 Jens Ott - PlusServer AG wrote: > in the last 24 hours we received two denial of service attacks with > something like 6-8GBit volume. It did not harm us too much, but e.g. > one of our upstreams got his Amsix-Port exploded. [...] > Therefore I had the following

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Paul Vixie
> > where you lose me is where "the attacker must always win". > > Do you have a miraculous way to stop DDOS? Is there now a way to quickly > and efficiently track down forged packets? Is there a remedy to shutting > down the *known* botnets, not to mention the unknown ones? there are no silver b

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steven M. Bellovin: > As Randy and Valdis have pointed out, if this isn't done very carefully > it's an open invitation to a new, very effective DoS technique. You > can't do this without authoritative knowledge of exactly who owns any > prefix; you also have to be able to authenticate the requ

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 14, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Steven M. Bellovin: As Randy and Valdis have pointed out, if this isn't done very carefully it's an open invitation to a new, very effective DoS technique. You can't do this without authoritative knowledge of exactly who owns any prefix; y

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Matthew Moyle-Croft
Florian Weimer wrote: If you want to run a public exchange point, you need to solve the same announcement validation problem. Multiple organizations appear to do it successfully, so it can't be that difficult. How exactly do you do "validation"? If I give you a list of ASes and prefixes, wh

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-14 Thread Paul Vixie
a minor editorial comment: Jens Ott - PlusServer AG writes: > Jack Bates schrieb: >> Paul Vixie wrote: >> >> Do you have a miraculous way to stop DDOS? Is there now a way to quickly >> and efficiently track down forged packets? Is there a remedy to shutting >> down the *known* botnets, not to m

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-15 Thread Jens Ott - PlusServer AG
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Paul Vixie schrieb: > a minor editorial comment: > > Jens Ott - PlusServer AG writes: > >> Jack Bates schrieb: >>> Paul Vixie wrote: >>> >>> Do you have a miraculous way to stop DDOS? Is there now a way to quickly >>> and efficiently track dow

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-15 Thread Randy Bush
Paul Vixie wrote: > the quoted text was written by jack bates, not paul vixie. the problem of misattributed quotations is greatly exacerbated by those who do not clearly attribute the text(s) they are quoting. randy

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-15 Thread Michael Thomas
[] I keep reading this subject as "Global Backhoe Service", ie, the sworn enemy of NANOG :) Mike

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 15, 2009, at 1:46 PM, Michael Thomas wrote: [] I keep reading this subject as "Global Backhoe Service", ie, the sworn enemy of NANOG :) Why ? At the Global Backhoe Service your dues will go to our initiative to place an iPhone running Google latitude on every backhoe on the plane

Re: Global Blackhole Service

2009-02-16 Thread Justin Shore
Jens Ott - PlusServer AG wrote: Therefore I had the following idea: Why not taking one of my old routers and set it up as blackhole-service. Then everyone who is interested could set up a session to there and I do something similar on our network with a RTBH trigger router. I peer with it fro