Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-21 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 20 Dec 2008, Randy Bush wrote: unfortunately snort does not really scale to a larger provider. and, to the best of my poor knowledge, good open source tools to black-hole/redirect botted users are not generally available. universities have some that are good at campus and enterprise sc

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-20 Thread Luke S Crawford
"Brandon Galbraith" writes: > But it's definitely not cool when my credit card company cuts off my card > due to "abnormal charges" when I'm abroad and suddenly can't get ahold of > customer service via their international phone number. Automation in the > right places works wonders for both conve

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Brandon Galbraith
On 12/20/08, Seth Mattinen wrote: > > > I like automation. It has rules and follows them. The rules are posted > ahead of time for all to see. Most of the time people are happy to see the > automated system put a stop to some kind of potential disaster before it has > time to cause more damage. It

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Seth Mattinen
Luke S Crawford wrote: Randy Bush writes: speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. unfortunately snort does not really scale

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > > speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort > > against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. > > I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. > > unfortunately snort does not really scale to a large

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Nathan Ward
On 20/12/2008, at 4:23 PM, Randy Bush wrote: speaking as a small provider, I can tell you that I find running snort against my inbound traffic does reduce the cost of running an abuse desk. I do catch offenders before I get abuse@ complaints, sometimes. unfortunately snort does not really

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Joel Esler
On Dec 19, 2008, at 10:23 PM, Randy Bush allegedly wrote: unfortunately snort does not really scale to a larger provider. I respectfully disagree. I have very large entities with ALOT of traffic running through Snort. However, they are also using my company's products. I work for Source

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Randy Bush
be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y." Yes. And where is the appropriate form for this? there must be some operators' list somewhere. > it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for yep. nanog is for whining about it, not doing/saying something actually construc

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-19 Thread Luke S Crawford
Randy Bush writes: > be specific, like "if you run X tools the payoff will be Y." Yes. And where is the appropriate form for this?I find this sort of thing quite interesting; and yeah, it doesn't seem like the sort of thing NANOG is for, but most of the small ISP forms (like webhostingtalk

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:13:59PM -0600, Frank Bulk wrote a message of 52 lines which said: > Is there an easy way to get past history on an IP block? Most sites > will show you aspects of that *now* http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/11/for-sale-clean-lightly-used-ip.shtml (That's just

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Gadi Evron wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: >>> >>> but you need to be much more specific about what you want from >>> medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. t

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Gadi Evron
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread JF Mezei
Quick comment on e-commerce. Consider that in many/most cases, the merchant will want to capture the customer's address which is sent along with credit card information for authorization. Once the merchant has received an authorization, he is pretty much garanteed to get pad by the credit card com

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Randy Bush
On 08.12.15 05:08, Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the co

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Murtaza
Wow!! thats an eye opener.. On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > > but you need to be much more specific about what you want from > > medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the > > financial se

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-14 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 05:51:13PM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: > but you need to be much more specific about what you want from > medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (cf. the > financial secions of the newpaper) will be to them to justify the costs. Inferior people look solely

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-13 Thread Andy Davidson
On 13 Dec 2008, at 12:39, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:33:51 -0800 "Tomas L. Byrnes" wrote: Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e- commerce site. What is a proxy? A garden-variety squid server, in the DMZ of a corporate firewall? The nasty box i

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-13 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:33:51 -0800 "Tomas L. Byrnes" wrote: > Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce > site. > What is a proxy? A garden-variety squid server, in the DMZ of a corporate firewall? The nasty box in some hotels that "helps" guests surf the net? A so

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Randy Bush
The point I am trying to make here is that ISPs should much more engaged in this entire process. most of the larger isps have reasonable security teams with some good folk. but you need to be much more specific about what you want from medium and smaller isps, and what the immediate payoffs (

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Randy Bush
If folks think that people are not "doing" massive correlation of criminal activity on the Internet, they would be mistaken. engineers judge by the results. and, unfortunately, we can read them in the ny times. though some recent papers sure make interesting reading. just picking on one pa

Re: Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not in the habit of responding to my e-mail, but... On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Paul Ferguson wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Hess wrote: > >> >> An in-depth strategy with hundreds or thousands of factors examined >> resul

Security Intelligence [Was: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...]

2008-12-13 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 12:22 AM, James Hess wrote: > > An in-depth strategy with hundreds or thousands of factors examined > results in a smaller > (but still present) possibility of the filter/detector being fooled. > > IP-based methods can be com

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-13 Thread James Hess
>> On 08.12.13 09:33, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: >>> anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce site. >> can you know at a reasonable confidence level that it's a proxy? > Give me an IP address (privately, of course). I can tell you if it is, with > consult from other colleagues in t

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> So having said all that, what exactly was your point? :-) > > bluff calling. > > that you can not tell us if that specific host is a proxy means that this > is pretty much bs. > > that you and yo

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Randy Bush
So having said all that, what exactly was your point? :-) bluff calling. that you can not tell us if that specific host is a proxy means that this is pretty much bs. that you and your no-girls-allowed club have some list of things you think are proxies (sure would be nice to have a definiti

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> Give me an IP address (privately, of course). I can tell you if it is, >> with >> consult from other colleagues in the security community. > > 147.28.0.36 > > and "consult with colleagues" is not

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Randy Bush
Give me an IP address (privately, of course). I can tell you if it is, with consult from other colleagues in the security community. 147.28.0.36 and "consult with colleagues" is not something very operationally scalable. randy

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Randy Bush wrote: > On 08.12.13 09:33, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: >> >> anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce site. > > can you know at a reasonable confidence level that it's a proxy? > Give me

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Randy Bush
On 08.12.13 09:33, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce site. can you know at a reasonable confidence level that it's a proxy? randy

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce > site. > I doubt it. -M<

RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
Because anyone with half a brain blocks proxies from their e-commerce site. >-Original Message- >From: Owen DeLong [mailto:o...@delong.com] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:49 PM >To: Nathan Stratton >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to

RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
b...@hopcount.ca] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:07 PM >To: Martin List-Petersen >Cc: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... > > >On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > >> It's a misconception of some

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Owen DeLong wrote: > > On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote: > >> On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote: >> >>> On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: >>> It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related products, that forget, that a lot or IT pr

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Joe Abley wrote: > > On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: > >> It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related >> products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel all >> over the world and usually have a credit card in their home country. >> >> Pure a

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 12, 2008, at 3:14 PM, Nathan Stratton wrote: On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote: On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel all over the world

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Nathan Stratton
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, Joe Abley wrote: On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel all over the world and usually have a credit card in their home country.

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 2008-12-12, at 15:02, Martin List-Petersen wrote: It's a misconception of some muppets, especially in IT related products, that forget, that a lot or IT professionals do travel all over the world and usually have a credit card in their home country. Pure and utter nonsense. Or perhaps

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Martin List-Petersen
that *now* Frank -Original Message- From: Robert Tarrall [mailto:tarr...@ecentral.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... Martin List-Petersen wrote: -> Contact Google. Somebody from Google rep

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 14:38, Nicolas Antoniello wrote: > How about US tourists in Chile trying to buy something with it's US > based credit card? :) It just doesn't work. -Jim P.

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Nicolas Antoniello
l > show you aspects of that *now* > > Frank > > -Original Message- > From: Robert Tarrall [mailto:tarr...@ecentral.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:45 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP... > >

RE: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-12 Thread Frank Bulk
Is there an easy way to get past history on an IP block? Most sites will show you aspects of that *now* Frank -Original Message- From: Robert Tarrall [mailto:tarr...@ecentral.com] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 9:45 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Netblock reassigned from

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-11 Thread John Curran
On Dec 11, 2008, at 10:44 PM, Robert Tarrall wrote: ... Yeah, it's those types that I'm hoping to locate as well... Google and Akamai were immediately noticed by the test users, and have also responded very quickly (thanks, guys), but ideally we'd like to be proactive and get as many of these up

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-11 Thread Randy Bush
try being illiterate and living in japan :) my gripe is the significant sites that put up the kanji page, offer no language choice, and you got there from the US url. you're trapped. and i can not tunnel out of it via my westin or ashburn racks, as my address blocks are registered to my home

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-11 Thread Robert Tarrall
Martin List-Petersen wrote: -> Contact Google. Somebody from Google replied off-list. Sounds like Google maybe had this updated even before he looked at it. -> Again. Akamai is helpful. Contact them. Somebody from Akamai replied off-list and they're looking into it. -> 3) End-user unable t

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-11 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Robert Tarrall wrote: > > Request for help here. We have a business partner who, like us, provides > DSL services to residential and small-business customers in the US Rocky > Mountain region. > > They just got a /20 from ARIN What is the block that ARIN allocate

Re: Netblock reassigned from Chile to US ISP...

2008-12-11 Thread Martin List-Petersen
Robert Tarrall wrote: 1) www.google.com is in Spanish Contact Google. 2) Web pages are slow - am assuming this is due to folks like Akamai sending them to content caches in Chile though I haven't tested it myself... God knows "web pages are slow" isn't particularly specific but I'm assumin