Re: IPv4 Anycast Resoure Recommendations

2010-06-03 Thread Jimmy Changa
Thanks for the info. Much appreciated. On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Gabriel Somlo wrote: > If you're interested in looking at it from a campus/enterprise point > of view, we recently reworked our DNS/Anycast setup, and here are the > deployment notes: > >http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.

Re: IPv4 Anycast Resoure Recommendations

2010-06-02 Thread Gabriel Somlo
If you're interested in looking at it from a campus/enterprise point of view, we recently reworked our DNS/Anycast setup, and here are the deployment notes: http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/DNS.html (you can stop reading at section 4, where it gets into the specifics of our homebr

Re: IPv4 Anycast Resoure Recommendations

2010-06-02 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Jun 2, 2010, at 6:08 AM, Jimmy Changa wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on IPv4 Anycast resources > (whitepapers, RFCs) as it relates to DNS? http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/anycast/ http://www.pch.net/resources/papers/dns-service-architecture/ http://www.pch.net/res

Re: IPv4 Anycast Resoure Recommendations

2010-06-02 Thread Jay Ford
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010, Jimmy Changa wrote: I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on IPv4 Anycast resources (whitepapers, RFCs) as it relates to DNS? I found the following useful: http://www.net.cmu.edu/pres/anycast http://ftp.isc.org/isc/pubs/tn/isc-tn-2004-1.html http://www.linux

Re: IPv4 Anycast Resoure Recommendations

2010-06-02 Thread Joe Abley
On 2010-06-02, at 09:08, Jimmy Changa wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had recommendations on IPv4 Anycast resources > (whitepapers, RFCs) as it relates to DNS? > > Thanks in advance. http://www.google.com/search?q=nanog+anycast+sarcastic top hit: http://seclists.org/nanog/2010/Mar/1027

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

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Shin SHIRAHATA
> > 192.88.99.0/24, 2002::/16, and 2001::/32 are some > > notable examples of heterogeneous origin AS. > > And those prefixes (6to4 & Teredo) all come with annoying problems as > one never knows which relay is really being used and it is hard to debug > how the packets really flow. I agree entir

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Joe Provo wrote: And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intended or not. Sadly, this is not a useful metric for a third-party to use to determine prefix annoucnement legitimacy. Perha

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Provo wrote: And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intended or not. Sadly, this is not a useful metric for a third-party to use to determine prefix annoucnement legitimacy. Perhaps an update to RPSL to allow for intentional multi

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Joe Provo
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 04:13:38PM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: [snip] > The original question provides a good statistic, I think. Only 8 > prefixes that were announced by more than 3 origin AS. And the overall message is that only the (prefix holder|originating ASn[s]) can tell you if it is intende

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 22, 2009, at 5:23 PM, Kevin Loch wrote: Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same ori

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Jack Bates
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I was under the impression anycast services with homogeneous origin AS was far more common than the heterogeneous. Almost all the instances I know of use homogeneous origin AS. I'd be interested in statistics either way. The original question provides a good stati

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Jeroen Massar
Kevin Loch wrote: > Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: >> On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: >>> Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same origin AS? >>> >

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Kevin Loch
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same origin AS? Yes, and it is commonly done. I was un

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 22, 2009, at 4:35 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same origin AS? Yes, and it is commonly done. I was under the impression anycas

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Jack Bates
Zhenkai Zhu wrote: I just want to make sure if I understand correctly. You mean that the anycasted address space can be announced in different places yet with the same origin AS? Yes, and it is commonly done. Jack

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Zhenkai Zhu
Jack Bates wrote: Zhenkai Zhu wrote: Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced by more than 3 ASes.. I presume you are using route-views or some such to get a larger picture of the BGP geogra

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Zhenkai Zhu
Rob Evans wrote: Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced by more than 3 ASes.. ...but inter-domain anycast is often achieved by using a single origin AS, which is then transited through the

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Evans
> Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for > DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced by more > than 3 ASes.. ...but inter-domain anycast is often achieved by using a single origin AS, which is then transited through the 'provider' autonom

RE: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Fouant, Stefan
> -Original Message- > From: Jack Bates [mailto:jba...@brightok.net] > > Given that the networks are duplicates, there's no requirement that > one part of the AS needs to receive routes from the other part of the > AS. For management and such of the devices, I presume there are > separat

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Jack Bates
Zhenkai Zhu wrote: Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced by more than 3 ASes.. I presume you are using route-views or some such to get a larger picture of the BGP geography? I believe that

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Nathan Ward
On 22/04/2009, at 7:12 PM, Zhenkai Zhu wrote: Ah, that's very possible. So I suppose the 90 prefixes with 3 origin ASes are due to the same reason.. Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread kris foster
On Apr 22, 2009, at 12:12 AM, Zhenkai Zhu wrote: Ah, that's very possible. So I suppose the 90 prefixes with 3 origin ASes are due to the same reason.. Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are annou

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Zhenkai Zhu
Ah, that's very possible. So I suppose the 90 prefixes with 3 origin ASes are due to the same reason.. Then there is basically no inter-As anycast besides the anycast prefix for DNS root, since I only noticed like 8 prefixes that are announced by more than 3 ASes.. --Zhenkai Nathan Wa

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 11:53:02PM -0700, Zhenkai Zhu wrote: > Hello NANOG, > > I noticed that more than 3K prefixes are with 2 Origin ASes. > Are they the simplest cases of anycast? Or they are mainly due to > misconfiguration? > > --- > --Zhenkai i honestly don't remember the req

Re: IPv4 Anycast?

2009-04-22 Thread Nathan Ward
On 22/04/2009, at 6:53 PM, Zhenkai Zhu wrote: Hello NANOG, I noticed that more than 3K prefixes are with 2 Origin ASes. Are they the simplest cases of anycast? Or they are mainly due to misconfiguration? The third (and probably more likely) option is that the prefixes are advertised