BGP route explosion

2002-05-01 Thread Andrew Herdman
I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning. Anyone else notice it, and who the culprit whats? I got the exact same hit from both my providers, ATT Can, and Telus. Thanks Andrew

Re: BGP route explosion

2002-05-01 Thread Neil J. McRae
I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning. Anyone else notice it, and who the culprit whats? I got the exact same hit from both my providers, ATT Can, and Telus. Yeah its been reported a few places - we saw about 130K

Re: BGP route explosion

2002-05-01 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Wed, 1 May 2002 08:42:02 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Herdman) wrote: I had a network outage this morning brought about by a BGP route explosion at around 6:30 EST(-4) this morning. Anyone else notice it, and who the culprit whats? I got the exact same hit from both my providers,

Re: BGP route explosion

2002-05-01 Thread matthew zeier
AS818 saw the spike, courtesy Geoff Houston's Table Data Program: http://ryouko.dgim.crc.ca/bgp/bgp-all.html Neat tool - I tried to grab the src but the first 1000 or so lines are blank and uncompilable. Anyone have a good version of the src?

Verizon fiber cut in Midtown Manhattan

2002-05-01 Thread Rishi Singh
http://1010wins.com/topstories/StoryFolder/story_1199630592_html WINS) May 1, 2002 6:49 am US/Eastern (New York-AP) -- Telephone service in a section of midtown Manhattan has been disrupted by a construction accident. Verizon spokesman Cliff Lee says a construction crew working on 58th

Re: news-peering

2002-05-01 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
} I'm trolling for newspeers, if there is anyone out there still using } NNTP.. http://www.usenet-se.net/peering/ A useless list based on my experience (zero responses to requests to twelve different sites). --lyndon

Re: news-peering

2002-05-01 Thread todd glassey
supernews.com is my news provider and they are pretty good. Todd - Original Message - From: Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Katsuhiro Kondou [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 9:53 AM Subject: Re: news-peering } I'm trolling for

Re: news-peering

2002-05-01 Thread Streiner, Justin
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: } I'm trolling for newspeers, if there is anyone out there still using } NNTP.. http://www.usenet-se.net/peering/ A useless list based on my experience (zero responses to requests to twelve different sites). Some of the information on

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Eliot Lear
I don't know if this is an annual argument yet, but the frog is in the pot, and the flame is on. Guess who's playing the part of the frog? Answer: ISPs who do this sort of thing. Value added security is a nice thing. Crippling Internet connections will turn the Internet into the phone

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 01 May 2002 14:55:02 PDT, Eliot Lear said: some access-lists. Just make sure that when that next really fun game is delivered on a play station that speaka de IP your customers can play it, and that you haven't built a business model around them not being able to play it. There

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Peter Bierman
At 3:03 PM -0700 5/1/02, Scott Francis wrote: On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 02:55:02PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I don't know if this is an annual argument yet, but the frog is in the pot, and the flame is on. Guess who's playing the part of the frog? Answer: ISPs who do this sort of thing.

Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
There's been plenty of discussion about DDoS attacks, and my IDS system is darn good at identifying them. But what are effective methods for large service-provider networks (ie ones where a firewall at the front would not be possible) to deal with DDoS attacks? Current method of updating ACLs

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Roland Dobbins
I think a lot of the GRPS stuff is heading towards IPv6 w/IPv4 gatewaying. The NAT issue has certainly resulted in a quite a few disgruntled satellite customers (I'm thinking here primarily of direcpc.com) who're willing to put up with the large latencies, but get really irate when their apps

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread dies
http://www.secsup.org/Tracking/ UUNet uses that...others might as well, Shrug. Quick, simple, effective tracking of DDoS attacks. As for identifying attacks, quite honestly large ISP's are typically still relying on customer notification. I know that's how we do it. On Wed, 1 May 2002,

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread dies
Then you are pushing out /32's and peers would need to accept them. Then someone will want to blackhole /30's, /29's, etc. Route bloat. Yum! Additionally you are creating a way to basically destroy the Internet as a whole. One kiddie gets ahold of a router, say of a large backbone

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Wojtek Zlobicki
Then you are pushing out /32's and peers would need to accept them. Then someone will want to blackhole /30's, /29's, etc. Route bloat. Yum! I am in no way proposing discounting current filtering rules. There are alway two different intersts one must consider, one that of the customer and

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, May 01, 2002 at 08:17:04PM -0500, dies wrote: Then you are pushing out /32's and peers would need to accept them. Then someone will want to blackhole /30's, /29's, etc. Route bloat. Yum! I'm not sure what form this would take, but I have long wished route

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:38:52PM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: How about the following : We develop a new community , being fully transitive (666 would be appropriate ) and either build into router code or create a route map to null route anything that contains this community. The

RE: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: I'm more concerned that if the major metropolitan markets deploying GPRS all use NAT, then the Next Big Thing won't ever happen on GPRS devices. Customers won't jump ship if they have no where to jump to. The only people who'd be deploying GPRS are GSM

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: We experience a lot of types of attacks (education/research network = easy hacker target). With DDoS incidents, it seems we are more often an unknowing/unwilling participant than the target, partly due to owning big chunks of IP address space.

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
On Wed, 1 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and then again, there has been much discussion on simple DoS attacks, where the term DDoS is erroneously used... I am very much not trying to imply that this is the case here, but it's important that the two be thoroughly distinguished from

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
What we use and we're a 'largeish' network: http://www.secsup.org/Tracking/ (shameless plug #1) Among other things this is a tool we use... there was a great set of slides and presentation given at NANOG23: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0110/greene.html (shameless plug #2) There is also a set of

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True DDoS attacks, fortunately, are rarer than most people believe. If they were not, the Internet as we know it would look a lot more like a telephone system in USSR-at-it's-worst-days. For example, of the two recent DDoS's I have been on

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, dies wrote: Then you are pushing out /32's and peers would need to accept them. Then someone will want to blackhole /30's, /29's, etc. Route bloat. Yum! Yes. Additionally you are creating a way to basically destroy the Internet as a whole. One kiddie gets ahold

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: Where are providers drawing the line ? Anyone have somewhat detailed published policies as to what a provider can do in order to protect their nework as a whole. At what point (strength of the attack) does a customers netblock (assuming a /24

Re: Large ISPs doing NAT?

2002-05-01 Thread Joe Abley
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 10:33 , Steven J. Sobol wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Deepak Jain wrote: I'm more concerned that if the major metropolitan markets deploying GPRS all use NAT, then the Next Big Thing won't ever happen on GPRS devices. Customers won't jump ship if they have no

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:28:44AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: Let me say this one more time... RATE LIMITS DON'T DO SHIT TO STOP ATTACKS for the victim atleast, all they do is make the job of the attacker that much easier. For instance: 1) I synflood www.avleen.org 2) you

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: I give it 2 months, then they'll start hitting random dst IPs in a target prefix (say a common /24 going through the same path). Damn you, don't give them any ideas :)

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Basil Kruglov
On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:45:43AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: Where are providers drawing the line ? Anyone have somewhat detailed published policies as to what a provider can do in order to protect their nework as a whole. At what

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: DDoS attacks is such a generic term. There are a wide variety of attacks which each need to be handled in their own way, the extra D is just one possible twist. Can you explain what kind of

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and then again, there has been much discussion on simple DoS attacks, where the term DDoS is erroneously used... I am very much not trying to imply that this is the case here, but it's important

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Basil Kruglov wrote: On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 04:45:43AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Wed, 1 May 2002, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote: Where are providers drawing the line ? Anyone have somewhat detailed published policies as to what a provider can do in order

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Pete Kruckenberg
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: SYN packet comes in, one of these machines responses with a RST to the source, which is actually the target of the You have an interesting situation. I think rate limiting outbound RSTs would be the least offensive thing you could do, off

Re: Effective ways to deal with DDoS attacks?

2002-05-01 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Wed, 1 May 2002, Pete Kruckenberg wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: SYN packet comes in, one of these machines responses with a RST to the source, which is actually the target of the You have an interesting situation. I think rate limiting outbound RSTs