DNSSEC and Firewalls (was Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup)

2010-03-31 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010, Kevin Oberman wrote: Fix your security officers! I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none have yet agreed to change it. The last one told me that blocking 53/tcp is "standard industry

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Joe Greco
> "Kevin Oberman" writes: > > He said that if the protocols would not handle blocked 53/tcp, the > > protocols would have to be changed. Opening the port was simply not > > open to discussion. > > Do they also believe that all DNS replies are less than 512 bytes? :-) Sure, why not. The phrase "

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Tony Finch
"Kevin Oberman" writes: > He said that if the protocols would not handle blocked 53/tcp, the > protocols would have to be changed. Opening the port was simply not > open to discussion. Do they also believe that all DNS replies are less than 512 bytes? :-) Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finchhttp://d

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 05:43:25PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not > >>> really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none > >>> have yet agreed to change it. > >> patience. when things really start to break, and

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Jens Link
"Kevin Oberman" writes: > He said that if the protocols would not handle blocked 53/tcp, the > protocols would have to be changed. Opening the port was simply not > open to discussion. Let me guess: They also completely blocked ICMP. I always tell these customers to switch to IPv6 real fast and

Re: DNSSEC deployment testing and awareness (Was: Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup)

2010-03-30 Thread Phil Regnauld
Robert Kisteleki (robert) writes: > I must observe that these are not really the links you'd want to > give your end users to check out. Their audience is very different. > While the article on RIPE Labs comes close, they don't really answer > the "does it work or does it not?" question with a gree

Re: DNSSEC deployment testing and awareness (Was: Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup)

2010-03-30 Thread Robert Kisteleki
I must observe that these are not really the links you'd want to give your end users to check out. Their audience is very different. While the article on RIPE Labs comes close, they don't really answer the "does it work or does it not?" question with a green/red light, and they don't provide a g

DNSSEC deployment testing and awareness (Was: Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup)

2010-03-30 Thread Phil Regnauld
Randy Bush (randy) writes: > > i.e. what can we do to maximize the odds that the victim will quickly > find the perp, as opposed to calling our our tech support lines? Ah yes, there was the second good reason for actually helping netops and security officers :) Tools:

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Phil Regnauld
Randy Bush (randy) writes: > patience. when things really start to break, and the finger of fate > points at them, clue may arise. > When this issue was brought up on the OARC dns-operations list, and it was suggested to make some simply factsheets (a bit like ICANN's IPv

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:59:08 +0900, Randy Bush said: > > I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not > > really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none have > > yet agreed to change it. > > patience. when things really start to break, and the finger of fa

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Randy Bush
>>> I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not >>> really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none >>> have yet agreed to change it. >> patience. when things really start to break, and the finger of fate >> points at them, clue may arise. > 36 days u

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-30 Thread Tony Finch
On 30 Mar 2010, at 07:59, Randy Bush wrote: I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none have yet agreed to change it. patience. when things really start to break, and the finger of fate points at th

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-29 Thread Randy Bush
> I have talked to multiple security officers (who are generally not > really knowledgeable on networks) who had 53/tcp blocked and none have > yet agreed to change it. patience. when things really start to break, and the finger of fate points at them, clue may arise. randy

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-29 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Joe Abley > Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:06:02 -0700 > > On 2010-03-26, at 06:40, Max Larson Henry wrote: > > >>> has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > >> > >> "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > > > > - Yes but as for DNS, anycas

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Smith
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:24:21 +0100 Jeroen Massar wrote: > InterNetX - Lutz Muehlig wrote: > > Hello, > > > > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > > I assume quite a number of people know how to do

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-03-26, at 10:04, Owen DeLong wrote: > It doesn't require an unstable routing table. There is a small set of > locations that could hit routers with multipath that may "balance" > the anycast packets down divergent paths. > > Essentially, these are the topological midpoints between any t

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 26, 2010, at 6:55 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: Max Larson Henry wrote: has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) not to p

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-03-26, at 06:40, Max Larson Henry wrote: >>> has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? >> >> "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) > not to perform zone transfe

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 26, 2010, at 6:40 AM, Max Larson Henry wrote: has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) not to perform zone transfer(TC

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-03-26, at 06:21, InterNetX - Lutz Muehlig wrote: > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? This is a general reference that tries hard not to be DNS-specific: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4786.txt These are two papers written whilst at ISC describing many aspe

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4828.1269611...@localhost>, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu writes: > --==_Exmh_1269611568_4209P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:40:39 EDT, Max Larson Henry said: > > > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) > > not t

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jeroen Massar: > Simple recipe: > - Box with: >- Your favourite OS >- Quagga or OpenBGPd >- Your favourite DNS server > - Announce the IP of the anycast node in BGP > - Monitor the DNS server, when it does not work kill your local BGPd >and notify the admins that it broke Thi

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
Max Larson Henry wrote: > > > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > > > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests > (UDP) not to perform zone transfer(TCP). Also t

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:40:39 EDT, Max Larson Henry said: > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) > not to perform zone transfer(TCP). DNS uses TCP for more than just XFR. For instance, if you're running a resolver that doesn't do EDNS0, and you hit an (increas

RE: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Ryland
> > > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > > > > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) > not to perform zone transfer(TCP). How-to with working configurations for

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread John Payne
On Mar 26, 2010, at 9:24 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > InterNetX - Lutz Muehlig wrote: >> Hello, >> >> has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. Can't really tell if you're being serious here due to caffein

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Max Larson Henry
> > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? > > "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. > - Yes but as for DNS, anycast is essentially used for user requests (UDP) not to perform zone transfer(TCP). -M

Re: IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread Jeroen Massar
InterNetX - Lutz Muehlig wrote: > Hello, > > has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? "Never been done" "Dangerous" "TCP does not work" etc etc etc. I assume quite a number of people know how to do it, especially as several root DNS servers abuse it. Simple recipe: - B

IPv4 ANYCAST setup

2010-03-26 Thread InterNetX - Lutz Muehlig
Hello, has someone experience in anycast ipv4 networks (to support DNS)? Regards Lutz