Flood affecting US east coast communication facilities?

2012-10-30 Thread Kauto Huopio
Greetings all,

Any reports on damage to communications facilities on US east coast?

--Kauto

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(dayjob @ CERT-FI )



Re: Flood affecting US east coast communication facilities?

2012-10-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Kauto Huopio ka...@huopio.fi wrote:
 Any reports on damage to communications facilities on US east coast?

Yes.  The outages list is a better place to look for this information.

https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-October/date.html

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Jeff S Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz
Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts



Re: Flood affecting US east coast communication facilities?

2012-10-30 Thread Bryan Tong
I saw cogent is sending 50k less routes today dunno if that has
anything to do with it.

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 1:55 AM, Jeff Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz wrote:
 On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Kauto Huopio ka...@huopio.fi wrote:
 Any reports on damage to communications facilities on US east coast?

 Yes.  The outages list is a better place to look for this information.

 https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2012-October/date.html

 --
 Jeff S Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz
 Sr Network Operator  /  Innovative Network Concepts




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Bryan Tong
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Re: Belpak / Beltelecom contact to address a BGP hijacking issue?

2012-10-30 Thread Sarah Nataf
Hi,

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Anurag Bhatia m...@anuragbhatia.com wrote:
 Seems like they are not advertising it anymore. AS6697 has transit from
 Level3 and peering/transit from HE. Both of them show path to AS3215 for
 that prefix now.

Yes, seems that the annoucement stopped yesterday, after 5 days:

Origin AS   First Seen  Last Seen
AS3215  2012-10-28 17:32:51 UTC 2012-10-30 07:00:20 UTC
AS6697  2012-10-24 09:28:20 UTC 2012-10-29 12:18:10 UTC
AS5396  2012-10-24 09:17:58 UTC 2012-10-24 09:17:58 UTC

Anyway, as we couldn't reach anyone from Belpak, not sure how the
issue was solved. So I think we'll let the 2.2.2.0/24 a few days more
(usually only the 2.2.0.0/16 is advertised by AS3215... but the
2.2.2.0/24 prefix is so often subject to hijacking that we might
permanently add this /24 as well).
-- 
sarah



Re: Flood affecting US east coast communication facilities?

2012-10-30 Thread Viral Vira
I think XO circuits are also affected due to Sandy

-Thanks,
Viral

On 30 October 2012 13:16, Kauto Huopio ka...@huopio.fi wrote:

 Greetings all,

 Any reports on damage to communications facilities on US east coast?

 --Kauto

 --
 Kauto Huopio - ka...@huopio.fi
 (dayjob @ CERT-FI )




Re: IP tunnel MTU

2012-10-30 Thread Tim Franklin
 Certainly fixing all the buggy host stacks, firewall and compliance devices 
 to realize that ICMP isn't bad won't be hard.

 Wait till you get started on fixing the security consultants.

Ack.  I've yet to come across a *device* that doesn't deal properly with 
packet too big.  Lots (and lots and lots) of security people, one or two 
applications, but no devices.

Regards,
Tim.





Re: IP tunnel MTU

2012-10-30 Thread Sander Steffann
Hi,

 Certainly fixing all the buggy host stacks, firewall and compliance devices 
 to realize that ICMP isn't bad won't be hard.
 
 Wait till you get started on fixing the security consultants.
 
 Ack.  I've yet to come across a *device* that doesn't deal properly with 
 packet too big.  Lots (and lots and lots) of security people, one or two 
 applications, but no devices.


I know of one: Juniper SSG and SRX boxes used to block IPv6 ICMP errors when 
the screening option 'big ICMP packets' was enabled because it blocked all (v4 
and v6) ICMP packets bigger than 1024 bytes and IPv6 ICMP errors are often 1280 
bytes. I don't know if that has been fixed yet.

- Sander




Re: IP tunnel MTU

2012-10-30 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2012-10-30 11:19, Sander Steffann wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Certainly fixing all the buggy host stacks, firewall and compliance 
 devices to realize that ICMP isn't bad won't be hard.

 Wait till you get started on fixing the security consultants.

 Ack.  I've yet to come across a *device* that doesn't deal properly with 
 packet too big.  Lots (and lots and lots) of security people, one or two 
 applications, but no devices.
 
 
 I know of one: Juniper SSG and SRX boxes used to block IPv6 ICMP errors when 
 the screening option 'big ICMP packets' was enabled because it blocked all 
 (v4 and v6) ICMP packets bigger than 1024 bytes and IPv6 ICMP errors are 
 often 1280 bytes. I don't know if that has been fixed yet.

I do not see them fixing that either, if one misconfigures a host to
filter big ICMP packets, you get exactly that, it will filter those packets.

In the same way as folks misconfiguring hosts to drop ICMP in general etc.

One cannot solve stupid people as they will do stupid things.

Greets,
 Jeroen




RE: IP tunnel MTU

2012-10-30 Thread Templin, Fred L
Hi Chris,

 -Original Message-
 From: Chris Woodfield [mailto:rek...@semihuman.com]
 Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 4:40 PM
 To: Templin, Fred L
 Cc: William Herrin; Ray Soucy; NANOG list
 Subject: Re: IP tunnel MTU
 
 True, but it could be used as an alternative PMTUD algorithm - raise the
 segment size and wait for the I got this as fragments option to show
 up...

Yes; it is a very attractive option on the surface. Steve Deering
called it Report Fragmentation (RF) when he first proposed it
back in 1988, but it didn't gain sufficient traction and what we
got instead was RFC1191.

As I mentioned, SEAL does this already but in a best effort
fashion. SEAL will work over paths that don't conform well to
the RF model, but will derive some useful benefit from paths
that do.
 
 Of course, this only works for IPv4. IPv6 users are SOL if something in
 the middle is dropping ICMPv6.

Sad, but true.

Thanks - Fred
fred.l.temp...@boeing.com

 -C
 
 On Oct 29, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Templin, Fred L wrote:
 
  Hi Bill,
 
  Maybe something as simple as clearing the don't fragment flag and
  adding a TCP option to report receipt of a fragmented packet along
  with the fragment sizes back to the sender so he can adjust his mss to
  avoid fragmentation.
 
  That is in fact what SEAL is doing, but there is no guarantee
  that the size of the largest fragment is going to be an accurate
  reflection of the true path MTU. RFC1812 made sure of that when
  it more or less gave IPv4 routers permission to fragment packets
  pretty much any way they want.
 
  Thanks - Fred
  fred.l.temp...@boeing.com
 




Re: IPv6 only streaming video

2012-10-30 Thread Carlos M. martinez
Hello,

Due to popular demand ( :=)) ), we are currently offering the streaming
of the LACNIC / LACNOG event over an IP6-only channel.

Take a look at http://www2.lacnic.net/sp/eventos/lacnicxviii/stream6.html

The webpage will load over IPv4 but the video is IPv6-only

regards

~Carlos

On 7/25/12 2:11 PM, Tina TSOU wrote:
 http://video.v6.labs.lacnic.net/jw/
 Server can not be found since yesterday. Has the URL been changed?
 
 Tina
 408-859-4996
 



RE: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories

2012-10-30 Thread Jones, Barry
I can share with you several stories personnel (both IT or vendors), who have 
scanned Electric Utility environments with or without permission; and hence 
caused multiple failures - including electro-mechanical systems and related 
applications. Utilities typically utilize many industrial controllers - some of 
which many IT personnel have no knowledge, and some are not robust enough to 
weather the storm.

1. Know your environment.
2. Know your tools.
3. Communicate.



 

-Original Message-
From: Dan White [mailto:dwh...@olp.net] 
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 12:47 PM
To: Pedersen, Sean
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories

On 10/29/12 12:10 -0700, Pedersen, Sean wrote:
We're evaluating several tools at the moment, and one vendor wants to 
dynamically scan our network to pick up hosts - SNMP, port-scans, WMI, 
the works. I was curious if anyone had any particularly gruesome horror 
stories of scanning tools run amok.

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=334articleid=20121002_11_A1_CUTLIN325691

A  layer 7 failure. Make sure all members of your organization are aware of 
your plans.

--
Dan White




Re: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories

2012-10-30 Thread Dan Snyder
We have had ncircle scans unexpectedly crash alcatel-lucent omni-switches.

On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Pedersen, Sean
sean.peder...@usairways.com wrote:
 We're evaluating several tools at the moment, and one vendor wants to 
 dynamically scan our network to pick up hosts - SNMP, port-scans, WMI, the 
 works. I was curious if anyone had any particularly gruesome horror stories 
 of scanning tools run amok.



RE: Network scan tool/appliance horror stories

2012-10-30 Thread Chuck Church
Network scan tools are a great way to verify what important protocols you
left out of your control plane policing non-default policies.  Had a scanner
totally clog up our 6500 core router DHCP relay (ip helper) function once.
Uggghhh, security people

Chuck




New York Crews?

2012-10-30 Thread Justin Wilson
Anyone know of lists, contacts, etc. for companies looking for I.T. Folks
for help with cleanup and such on the eastern seaboard?  I am guessing there
will be a demand for anyone from cable pullers to Engineers.  I have some
free time on my hands and would gladly take a cut in pay to go out and work
with the cleanup.  I can terminate cables, climb towers, etc.  I am sure I
am not the only underemployed I.T. Guy who could spend a week or two helping
a data center, or other entity.

Just wondering if anyone knew of any resources, groups, contacts.

Thanks,
Justin

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Twitter Issue

2012-10-30 Thread Rashed Alwarrag
Hi All

Was there is any global issue in Twitter.com here is saudi arabia we were
not able to access twitter.com from 3:30 to 06:30 GMT  any idea ?

*Rashed Alwarrag *


Re: Twitter Issue

2012-10-30 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Rashed Alwarrag rali.ah...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi All

 Was there is any global issue in Twitter.com here is saudi arabia we were
 not able to access twitter.com from 3:30 to 06:30 GMT  any idea ?

does the saudi telecom ministry (or like agency) limit access to things perhaps?