Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2007-01-02 Thread Michael . Dillon
What is this group's name? Oh yeah. So that means you have one of two choices ;-) Smart NANOGers have taken the time to read the NANOG charter here: http://www.nanog.org/charter.html which says... The purpose of NANOG is to provide forums in the North American region for education

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-27 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 8, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Petri Helenius wrote: Has anyone figured out a remote but lawful way to repair zombie machines? Having remote power control over all of our customer's equipment. Though the customer might not consider that a repair, I do :-) -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-27 Thread Jo Rhett
On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: Lawful in which country? What is this group's name? Oh yeah. So that means you have one of two choices ;-) -- Jo Rhett senior geek Silicon Valley Colocation

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-27 Thread Randy Bush
Lawful in which country? What is this group's name? Oh yeah. So that means you have one of two choices ;-) i know this will come as a shock to many, but there are more than two countries in north america. and like afnog, nanog is not as isolationist or jingoist as the current us

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-27 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:36 AM, Scott Weeks wrote: Lawful in which country? What is this group's name? Oh yeah. So that means you have one of two choices ;-) I was speaking about 'the internet' and not

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Luke C
of course, my company is working on two main tasks: the first team is focused on discovering what is the virus, and what is the best anti-virus. instead, my team has already scaled our DNS service, by doubling the number of DNSs. I'm not completely satisfied by the scaling solution: I wish to

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Luke C
I use to slave . which can save time on recursive DNS servers when they have a lot of dross to answer (assuming it is totally random dross). I'm not sure to understand your solution. You configure your name-server as a slave-root-server? On 12/8/06, Simon Waters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 11 December 2006 16:15, you wrote: I use to slave . which can save time on recursive DNS servers when they have a lot of dross to answer (assuming it is totally random dross). I'm not sure to understand your solution. You configure your name-server as a slave-root-server? Yes.

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Matt Ghali
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Simon Waters wrote: Yes. Most of the root server traffic is answering queries with NXDOMAIN for non-existant top level domains, if you slave root on your recursive servers, your recursive servers can answer those queries directly (from the 120KB root zone file), rather

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-11 Thread Mark Andrews
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Simon Waters wrote: Yes. Most of the root server traffic is answering queries with NXDOMAIN for non-existant top level domains, if you slave root on your recursive servers, your recursive servers can answer those queries

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-09 Thread Hank Nussbacher
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Petri Helenius wrote: Has anyone figured out a remote but lawful way to repair zombie machines? Pete Virtual patching. -Hank

RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Geo.
I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect you, they affect the rest of us so why should we give you a solution to your problem when you

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Simon Waters
On Friday 08 December 2006 14:40, you wrote: For this reason, I would like that a DNS could response maximum to 10 queries per second given by every single Ip address. That may trap an email server or two. Did you consider checking what they are looking up, and lying to them about the

RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Geo. wrote: I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect you, they affect the rest of us so why should we give you

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Luke wrote: Hi, as a comsequence of a virus diffused in my customer-base, I often receive big bursts of traffic on my DNS servers. Unluckly, a lot of clients start to bomb my DNSs at a certain hour, so I have a distributed tentative of denial of service. I can't

RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Geo.
Actually, reading your reply (which is the same as my own, pretty much), I figure the guy asked a question and he has a real problem. Assuming he doesn't want to clean them up is not nice of us. Infected machines (bots) will cause a lot more than just DNS issues. Issues like this have a way

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Petri Helenius
Geo. wrote: I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect you, they affect the rest of us so why should we give you a solution to your

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Joe Abley
On 8-Dec-2006, at 11:52, Geo. wrote: Actually, reading your reply (which is the same as my own, pretty much), I figure the guy asked a question and he has a real problem. Assuming he doesn't want to clean them up is not nice of us. Infected machines (bots) will cause a lot more than

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread
I have a bots infested network, they really task my services! How can I make my services ignore them so that the clients start calling me and spending my tech support budget? Or: I have bots on my network and as part of a multi-pronged approach to cleaning my network while keeping the

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Gadi Evron
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Petri Helenius wrote: Geo. wrote: I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect you, they affect the rest

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 12/8/06, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone figured out a remote but lawful way to repair zombie machines? sure, null route the customer until they clean their hosts up

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Scott Weeks
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] Geo. wrote: I know this is kind of a crazy idea but how about making cleaning up all these infected machines the priority as a solution instead of defending your dns from your infected clients. They not only affect

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Fergie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sorry for the top-post, but wanted to retain context here. Also, sorry for the specific product mention, but much of is mentioned below is something that we are doing with ICSS/BASE:

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Petri Helenius
Aaron Glenn wrote: On 12/8/06, Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone figured out a remote but lawful way to repair zombie machines? sure, null route the customer until they clean their hosts up My question was specifically directed towards zombies that are not local to

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Matt Ghali
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Simon Waters wrote: I suspect complex rate limiting may be nearly as expensive as providing DNS answers with Bind9. Indeed. It is generally accepted that it is easier to simply scale your service to provide adequate headroom than implement per-client traffic policies.

RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Matt Ghali
On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Gadi Evron wrote: Luke: It is possible the DNS queries made are for non existent domains, fake replies, perhaps even making them something in 1918 space, and they MAY stop being not nice netizens. Configuring your nameservers to randomly give bad answers isn't considered

RE: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Frank Bulk
You could also look at Cloudshield. I was following the EveryDNS issue this weekend and this item among the regular VON press release blast jumped out at me: http://www.cloudshield.com/news_events/2006_Releases/EveryDNS%20FINAL.pdf Regards, Frank _ From: Frank Bulk Sent: Friday,

Re: DNS - connection limit (without any extra hardware)

2006-12-08 Thread Douglas Otis
On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:40 AM, Luke wrote: Hi, as a consequence of a virus diffused in my customer-base, I often receive big bursts of traffic on my DNS servers. Unluckly, a lot of clients start to bomb my DNSs at a certain hour, so I have a distributed tentative of denial of service. I