Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread albertpublic
You know how easy it is to fake IRC logs? Yes, I do. And I also know that these aren't fake. I've seen them before, from some respected sources in the ISP security community, and I've also seen Gregory's manifesto sent to the EFNet admins list admitting to having launched DDoS attacks

Re: Fw: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread albertpublic
I was talking more along the lines of disclosing personal information without permission Since when was re-pasting entries from the phonebook considered illegal? slander is another one as well... I suggest you read a legal dictionary, and turn to the definitions of slander and libel. One

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread albertpublic
Matthew (yes I know it is you) No, my name is Albert. I have not attacked any Internet Service Provider or IRC server in several years. I am and have been retired from the underground for a long while now, despite the constant comments made to the contrary by people who do not represent me in

network or not? Re: Platinum accounts for the Internet (was Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?)

2004-03-16 Thread Scott Weeks
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: First, let me say that I appreciate your s wrt the s2n ratio here. I don't want to indicate otherwise. But, to get into the circle with everyone else and shoot some marbles... :) : Ok - is name resoluution issue network issue or not? if it is, how

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread jqtaxpayer
Hello, I just thought I should chime in here. Below you will find OseK's (Greg Taylor) manifesto sent to EFnet admins during an event last year where OseK was attacking most EFnet servers. Additionally, I can tell you that Greg was attacking my network at some point in the last year,

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG (retry)

2004-03-16 Thread jqtaxpayer
Sorry about the last post, my client's linewrap seems to not work properly, I'll try again. Hello, I just thought I should chime in here. Below you will find OseK's (Greg Taylor) manifesto sent to EFnet admins during an event last year where OseK was attacking most EFnet servers.

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
People should be worried about stuff like this. Banetele is a facilities-based network operator in Norway and these guys are directly attacking their BGP sessions to put them off the air. Assuming that they are not sourcing the attacks in Banetele's AS, then you, the peer of Banetele are

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
Too bad I can't automate the web logins. Huh!? http://curl.haxx.se/ And then there are all those Windows macro recorder programs http://www.tucows.com/macros95_default.html --Michael Dillon

Re: A TCP Replacement protocol 6000 times faster than DSL?

2004-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Oops: This Account Has Been Suspended Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible. How fast is DSL? I think mine is 64k min, so 6000x64k=384Mb .. hmm, I can transfer files currently via Gig for faster than that. But anyway, yeah they've done a bunch of benchmarks with

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People should be worried about stuff like this. Banetele is a facilities-based network operator in Norway and these guys are directly attacking their BGP sessions to put them off the air. Can anyone from Banetele/who knows Banetele confirm this

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread sthaug
People should be worried about stuff like this. Banetele is a facilities-based network operator in Norway and these guys are directly attacking their BGP sessions to put them off the air. Can anyone from Banetele/who knows Banetele confirm this attack took place? According to the

2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED], maybe now it will get their attention instead of going into /dev/null] Hi, Here is some operational content, instead of Packet Kiddies trying to rape each other verbally ;) According to Toshikazu Saito (Powerdcom): I

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread John Kristoff
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004 23:17:27 -0500 (EST) Andrew Dorsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not referring to the time required to implement. I'm talking about the time it takes for the user. On the user end. Lets do some simple math. Lets say I turn on my laptop before I shower, I power it down

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
[cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED], maybe now it will get their attention instead of going into /dev/null] This is an odd thing to do because you don't say what action you would like ARIN to take. What do you think ARIN should do? ASHandle: AS4474 Comment:The information for this ASN has been

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jordan Lowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Who are you to start publicly trying to deeper people? Nlayer has a great noc, I am a customer, and know many more. They are currently migrating from 4474 to 4436 due to the asn issue, and its not

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [cc: to [EMAIL PROTECTED], maybe now it will get their attention instead of going into /dev/null] This is an odd thing to do because you don't say what action you would like ARIN to take. What do you think ARIN should

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Before you started a rant on [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this inconsistent-as problem on an inet6 route, did you think about posting a polite, Please, someone from nlayer, contact me off-list, message; or how about an email to the inet6 carrier(s) from which you learnt the routes? It seems to me

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread David Barak
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming that they are not sourcing the attacks in Banetele's AS, then you, the peer of Banetele are delivering the packet stream that kills the BGP session. How long before peering agreements require ACLs in border routers so that only BGP peering routers

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474(Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff S Wheeler wrote: Before you started a rant on [EMAIL PROTECTED] about this inconsistent-as problem on an inet6 route, did you think about posting a polite, Please, someone from nlayer, contact me off-list, message; or how about an email to

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
Why would nlayer be now using AS4436? It is listed as scruz.net, but as far as I remember scruz was taken overy by DSL.NET (I think that even included their peering agreements) and some of their ip block such as 204.139.8.0/21, 204.147.224.0/20 and others certainly seem to confirm that. As

Re: Replacement for a Extreme Black Diamond 6808

2004-03-16 Thread Erik Haagsman
On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 04:59, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: Are you using it for L2 only, or L2+L3? I hear decent things about using them for L2 only, and using J or C boxes for the L3 portion. Yep...that's the way we do it as well, L2 on the BD6808's and L3 on J boxes although we started out

Re: Load Balancing Multiple DS3s (outgoing) on a 7500

2004-03-16 Thread Richard J. Sears
Hi Drew - We have 6 backbones distributed across two 7507s and we messed around with a lot of different ways to make this happen. MEDs, Weights, manual BGP configurations every time one of the connections would get overloaded (even at 2am), you name it - we tried it, and in the end we

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread John Quincy Taxpayer
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 04:14:01 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to the people I spoke to, they had not noticed such an attack on the date specified. And, while not knowing the specifics of this situation, if you were being attacked, and it hurt your network, would you continue to piss

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread John Payne
--On Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:52 AM -0800 william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why would nlayer be now using AS4436? It is listed as scruz.net, but as far as I remember scruz was taken overy by DSL.NET (I think that even included their peering agreements) and some of their ip block

DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Geo.
Can anyone point me at any papers that talk about security issues raised by private networks passing dns requests for RFC 1918 private address space out to their ISP's dns servers? I'm aware of the issues involved with an ISP passing the requests on to the root servers but was looking

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts efnet... I can only send them my condoleences. I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes. - Original Message - From: Stephen J. Wilcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread sthaug
Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts efnet... I can only send them my condoleences. I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes. BaneTele hosts an EFnet IRC server. Caused no significant problems while I was working at BaneTele. That's probably

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread bill
so... the subject is somewhat disingenious. there is no problem with a prefix being announced by more than one ASN. Per the original subject, this seemed to be your gripe. however, the thread has devolved into someone using network resources w/o registration... which is different.

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread jlewis
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts efnet... I can only send them my condoleences. I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes. What about undernet? A customer wants us to help him setup an undernet IRC

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so... the subject is somewhat disingenious. there is no problem with a prefix being announced by more than one ASN. 2001:590::/32 _is_ being announced by both AS4436 *and* AS4474. Trying to contact these

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts efnet... I can only send them my condoleences. I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes. What about undernet?

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 11:22:55 EST, Geo. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm aware of the issues involved with an ISP passing the requests on to the root servers but was looking specifically for security type issues relating to a private network passing the requests out to their ISP's dns servers.

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16 Mar 2004, at 12:03, bill wrote: there is no problem with a prefix being announced by more than one ASN. I am fairly sure that I have seen real-life issues with at least one vendor's BGP implementation which led a valid route object with one origin to be masked by another valid route

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread bill
On 16 Mar 2004, at 12:03, bill wrote: there is no problem with a prefix being announced by more than one ASN. Bill: have you done any measurement exercises to determine whether this is, in fact, an issue? Or was your comment above based on the protocol, rather than deployed

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Crist Clark
Geo. wrote: Can anyone point me at any papers that talk about security issues raised by private networks passing dns requests for RFC 1918 private address space out to their ISP's dns servers? I've never seen the whole paper on the topic. Leaking the fact that you use 10.10.10.0/24 or whatever

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread bill
Can anyone point me at any papers that talk about security issues raised by private networks passing dns requests for RFC 1918 private address space out to their ISP's dns servers? I'm aware of the issues involved with an ISP passing the requests on to the root servers but was looking

RE: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Curtis Maurand
On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Andrew Dorsett wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Vivien M. wrote: Yes I am... I am referring to a system which an unmentionable university has in place. It requires the user to enter their username and password each time the link state changes before they are allowed

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Joe Abley
On 16 Mar 2004, at 13:07, Crist Clark wrote: The IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations for RFC1918 space are just like any other block. You'll just end up hitting IANA's blackhole servers, and not all that much, the cache times are one week. Also, those blackhole servers are anycast, so they might even be

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Daniel Karrenberg
On 16.03 11:22, Geo. wrote: Can anyone point me at any papers that talk about security issues raised by private networks passing dns requests for RFC 1918 private address space out to their ISP's dns servers? RFC1918

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Duane Wessels
The IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations for RFC1918 space are just like any other block. You'll just end up hitting IANA's blackhole servers, and not all that much, the cache times are one week. In theory, yes. In reality there are quite a few resolvers that, apparently, do not receive the delegation

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Curtis Maurand wrote: Then anyone can walk up to the machine and get onto the network simply by turning on the machine. The system you're looking for involve biometrics or smartcards. Firewalls between student and administration areas would be a good idea as well. It must be dreadful to

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:08:28 PST, bill said: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0210/wessels.html has some very good information about some of the problems w/ leaked queries. http://as112.net/ has some mitigation stratagies. That mitigates the issue, but fails to deal with

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Scott McGrath
Painting with a broad brush the differentiation between student and administrative networks is based on location,role and ownership A public ethernet port in a library is a student network even though administrative computers may be connected from time to time. The librarian's machine is

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:03:21AM -0800, bill wrote: so... the subject is somewhat disingenious. there is no problem with a prefix being announced by more than one ASN. Per the original subject, this seemed to be your gripe. Using local-as to migrate sessions individually results in the

Re: who offers cheap (personal) 1U colo?

2004-03-16 Thread Eric Gauthier
In case I every get another job at a University, how do you separate student areas from administration areas? When we disable the network in a particular area, if a non-student calls then its a non-student area ;) Eric :)

Re: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: 2001:590::/32 _is_ being announced by both AS4436 *and* AS4474. Trying to contact these ASN's to inquire why that is happening and maybe finding out if it was an erronous configuration I tried to find the contacts which lead to

Re: DNS requests for 1918 space

2004-03-16 Thread Crist Clark
Duane Wessels wrote: The IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations for RFC1918 space are just like any other block. You'll just end up hitting IANA's blackhole servers, and not all that much, the cache times are one week. In theory, yes. In reality there are quite a few resolvers that, apparently, do not

Stateful Ethernet Bridging and it's effect on overall Internet topology.

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Taylor
I have a question and would like all of your opinions on this matter, as I research heavily into stateful ethernet bridging, packet mangling and their advantages and disadvantages to local and wide area network topologies. Deployed in large volumes, what negative effects, if any, would

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: 2001:590::/32 _is_ being announced by both AS4436 *and* AS4474. Trying to contact these ASN's to inquire why that is

Re: Stateful Ethernet Bridging and it's effect on overall Internet topology.

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Taylor
I agree, however there are some implementations of this type of bridging that 'routing' would not be a good substitute for. Say mangling traffic going outbound for compression purposes (A La Redline (Yes I know redline does proxying and not bridging)). I guess my best question would be, is

RE: 2001:590::/32 announced by both AS4436 (nLayer) and AS4474 (Global Village, no contact in whois, but seems to be nLayer...)

2004-03-16 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 06:12:22PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: 2001:590::/32 _is_ being announced by both AS4436 *and* AS4474. Trying to contact these ASN's to inquire why that is

Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-16 Thread Nicole
Hi I am looking for a good but reasonably priced firewall for a 40 or so server site. Some people swear by Pix, others swear at it a lot. Also I have heard good things about Netscreen. Or any others you would recommend for protecting servers on a busy network. Don't really need anything with

Re: Cisco website www.cisco.com 403 forbidden?

2004-03-16 Thread Robert Boyle
At 04:04 PM 3/16/2004, Petri Helenius wrote: No. It´s self defending network. It was the little girl with the really cool game! :) R Tellurian Networks - The Ultimate Internet Connection http://www.tellurian.com | 888-TELLURIAN | 973-300-9211 Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions,

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-16 Thread Gregory Taylor
PIX firewalls are great if you configure them correctly for the application. 40 or less servers may not require something as complex, however if the data you are protecting is super-critical, I think a PIX might be your best solution. Proxy firewalls (i.e. Linux, BSD or variant gateways) are

RE: Firewall opinions wanted please - clarification

2004-03-16 Thread Nicole
As much as I hate to follow up my own post, I suppose I was a bit too vauge for my own good =] We do not run any cisco gear and we are in a Class A data facility. By proxy I did not mean to imply NAT. I cannot remember the proper term but what I mean is full packet handeling as opposed to

verisignmail.com RBL Contact

2004-03-16 Thread Mark Foster
If anyone on here is from the powers-that-be behind the verisignmail.com RBL - or infact anyone from Verisign Security - could they please contact me offlist regarding an ongoing (2 month!) issue regarding mail delivery. Thanks, and sorry for the noise (again!). Mark.

RE: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-16 Thread Burton, Chris
Depends on many aspects; performance, management, and logging features. I personally recommend Checkpoint FW-1 Express for a smaller site if you want easy configuration and a great logging interface; though the pricing may not be what you are looking for. Cisco PIX is also great but the

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please - clarification

2004-03-16 Thread Brandon Shiers
Sonicwall makes a great product that can run in STANDARD (Proxy) mode. Their prices are pretty good as well, espicially if you buy them through a reseller. We deploy many of these firewalls every year and they are great! Thanks, Brandon On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:07:26 -0800 (PST) Nicole

Re: Packet Kiddies Invade NANOG

2004-03-16 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, if someone (except masochists and security vendiors) still hosts efnet... I can only send them my condoleences. I saw sthe same dialogs 6 years ago. Nothing changes. What about undernet? Thats even worse :) A customer wants us to

Assymetric Routing / Statefull Inspection Firewall

2004-03-16 Thread Mike Turner
Hello Everyone, I am currently looking for a statefull inspection firewall that support asymmetric routing is there such a product? I cannot imagine that I am the only person with redundant Internet connectivity, that would like to put firewalls near the edge of our network. Any

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:27:16 PST, Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From what I have heard a proxy firewall would be best? I'll go out on a limb here and say that the actual make and model of the firewall don't matter anywhere *near* as much as a proper understanding on the client's part of

GigE High-Availability + Link Aggregation

2004-03-16 Thread Jason McCormick
Hello all, I'm trying to price and buy a network setup for a high-availability GigE situation that requires link aggregation. In a simplistic example, my need is to have, Host A with 2 GigE NICs (copper) that are link aggregated with 802.3ad but each side is run to a different switch with

Re: GigE High-Availability + Link Aggregation

2004-03-16 Thread Jason McCormick
On Tuesday 16 March 2004 10:08 pm, you wrote: I'm trying to price and buy a network setup for a high-availability GigE situation that requires link aggregation. {SNIP} Thanks for the reponse to far. To clarify several things based on the feedback... For the implementation Host A side

Re: Assymetric Routing / Statefull Inspection Firewall

2004-03-16 Thread alex
If you are asking for stateful filtering for a firewall that sees only one-way conversation, it does not exist and cannot exist, by definition. If you are asking for some way for firewall A that sees only inbound packets and firewall B that sees only outbound packets to communicate said

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please

2004-03-16 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Valdis.Kletni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --==_Exmh_2134986584P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 14:27:16 PST, Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From what I have heard a proxy firewall would be best? I'll go out on a limb here and say

Re: Firewall opinions wanted please - clarification

2004-03-16 Thread Alexei Roudnev
You mean _PROTOCL HANDELING_, I believe. I do not know, why people are paying so much attention to it. Important questions are: - which services are you providing for the public? - who will handle all your SSL sessions, if any (may be, Load Balancers? Then you do not bother about FW proxy for

Re: Assymetric Routing / Statefull Inspection Firewall

2004-03-16 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
I went to reply, but my e-mail client filled this in: On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:27 PM, Mike Turner wrote: mime-attachment :) Back on topic On Mar 16, 2004, at 9:27 PM, Mike Turner wrote: I am currently looking for a statefull inspection firewall that support asymmetric routing is there