Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 6, 2013, at 16:03 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with redirects on public facing boxes? Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, and routes

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:25:30 -0700, Owen DeLong said: Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. They also cover the case where there are two (or more) routers on the network and you

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Apr 7, 2013, at 18:47 , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:25:30 -0700, Owen DeLong said: Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. They also cover the case where

RE: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Keith Medcalf
To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers Hello everybody, I have two DNS Server (resolver) running on FreeBSD 9.0, I always see in console messages like this: icmp redirect from 192.168.140.36: 192.168.179.80 = 192.168.140.254 and lots of messages like this, mostly ip addresses

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/6/13, Keith Medcalf kmedc...@dessus.com wrote: Although spoofed ICMP redirects mightalso be abused to intercept/quietly sniff traffic on a switched LAN; The default gateway responding with a redirect in that situation is the normal case where you expect to receive an ICMP redirect. ; in

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread shawn wilson
On Apr 6, 2013 3:13 AM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: Failing all that, if the LANs are large, and a large number of ICMP redirects would occur, it may be preferrable to turn ICMP redirects off for those LANs on their routers What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: What would break if u dropped all ICMP packets with redirects on public facing boxes? Presumably nothing, as long as you guaranteed that your IP address, netmask, and routes actually match the reality of your network configuration. In

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-06 Thread Jimmy Hess
On 4/6/13, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 06 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0400, shawn wilson said: case, you shouldn't see any valid ICMP redirects. They're there mostly so things kind-of-sort-of work even if you botch it (so for instance, even if you whiff your default

ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-05 Thread Shahab Vahabzadeh
Hello everybody, I have two DNS Server (resolver) running on FreeBSD 9.0, I always see in console messages like this: icmp redirect from 192.168.140.36: 192.168.179.80 = 192.168.140.254 and lots of messages like this, mostly ip addresses not belong to me, and some times these resolvers stop

Re: ICMP Redirect on Resolvers

2013-04-05 Thread Tony Finch
On 6 Apr 2013, at 06:36, Shahab Vahabzadeh sh.vahabza...@gmail.com wrote: I have two DNS Server (resolver) running on FreeBSD 9.0, I always see in console messages like this: icmp redirect from 192.168.140.36: 192.168.179.80 = 192.168.140.254 You probably configured the wrong default router