Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-11 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:22 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
On that you'll have to speak for yourself.  We have it on every  
customer port ;-)


Now that is interesting. Can you share a bit about you  
rimplementation hardships, costs, customer complaints, etc?



One customer complaint.  Found the customer was looping traffic  
between two uplinks and helped them fix the problem ;-)


Implementation cost: time/labor to implement automatic management of  
ACLs on the customer ports.


Not all that much cost, since we had already developed infrastructure  
to do the same thing for customer configurations.  Maybe 12 hours of  
my time coding and testing.


Honestly, I expected a lot more problems than we've had.  Especially  
given the fallout I'd seen on the networks trying to do it with  
Cisco.  But the Force10 gear didn't even notice the effect, and it's  
been ~2 years since I've even thought much about it.


--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-11 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 7, 2008, at 12:18 AM, Randy Bush wrote:

normally i would have just hit delete.  but your ad hominem attack on
the messenger need a response.

the reality of life is that he is correct in that attack traffic  
comes

from legitimate IP sources anyway.

therefore, your first duty should be to keep your hosts from joining  
the

massive army of botnets.



Having no hosts, I can't do much about that other than use various  
good best practices (including BCP38), run ids units looking for  
compromised hosts, and respond quickly to each abuse report if my IDS  
doesn't observe it first.


Given that I know of no provider larger than us using BCP38 on every  
port, and no other provider larger than us that responds to every  
abuse report, it would appear that we are top of the class in that  
aspect.


Therefore, when someone says I don't need to do BCP38 because BCP38  
doesn't cause problems for them, I consider them a jerk.  And yeah, I  
feel pretty confident looking down my nose at someone like that.


--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-11 Thread Randy Bush
 normally i would have just hit delete.  but your ad hominem attack on
 the messenger need a response.

 the reality of life is that he is correct in that attack traffic comes
 from legitimate IP sources anyway.

 therefore, your first duty should be to keep your hosts from joining the
 massive army of botnets.
 
 Having no hosts, I can't do much about that other than ...

i suggest you go back to the mail to which you responded obscenely
vilifying the poster who was specifically saying he worried about his
host before bcp38.  that was specifically the subject.

 Given that I know of no provider larger than us using BCP38 on every
 port

well, that sets an upper bound on the extent of your knowledge, eh.  and
not a very high one.

randy



RE: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-11 Thread James Jun
  i suggest you go back to the mail to which you responded obscenely
  vilifying the poster who was specifically saying he worried about his
  host before bcp38.  that was specifically the subject.
 
 host in that context was his router, which makes your comment make
 less sense.  (having never seen a big iron router become a client in a
 botnet, myself)  He was talking about big iron control plane policy
 controls.   You must have missed the context.

Actually, Randy is right.  We were discussing in context of routers and
botnets themselves.  Host in my context was about the botnets sending
attack from legitimate IP sources that BCP38 will not be able to defeat.

 You want to stop being rude, and start making positive assertations
 about things you know?  I'd love to be wrong, but I've got a whole lot
 of experience on this topic.   If you know better, educate the rest of
 us.

No, you have demonstrated that the only jerk in this entire forum is no one
but you with limited bounds of intelligence.

Before you go on and call someone a jerk, idiot and falsely accuse him
of ~not wanting to deploy BCP38[1]~, read your own posts and start making
positive assertions about things that you know yourself.


[1]: Almost every network that I help manage is operated with BCP38 either
with uRPF or even with automatic-scripted SAV (source address
verification/filtering)/ ACL's.  


james




Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
Jo Rhett wrote:
 On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
 Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/control
 plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38
 when much
 of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see botnets).
 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure,
 yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting
 anyone else.
 
 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

normally i would have just hit delete.  but your ad hominem attack on
the messenger need a response.

the reality of life is that he is correct in that attack traffic comes
from legitimate IP sources anyway.

therefore, your first duty should be to keep your hosts from joining the
massive army of botnets.

randy



Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Wall
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Greg Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hey Paul, would you be able to demonstrate this problem?  I'd like to see
 it so that we can investigate and fix it.

 You are correct that the first generation of E-Series hardware (EtherScale)
 had little control plane protection.

 The current E-Series hardware (TeraScale) has a completely different
 architecture that rate limits, queues and filters all packets destined to
 the control plane.

In my current job, I don't have access to this kind of iron.  The
afforementioned Linksys solution provides more than enough capacity.

If you could provide me login/enable access to a current E-series box
with no firewalls sitting in front, I can most likely replicate.

(Off-list, in the interest of keeping things on-topic, with a
follow-up summary sent on-...)

Drive Slow,
Paul Wall



BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38  
when much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than  
protecting anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread John C. A. Bambenek
Count me in.

There is no reason to limit our defenses to the one thing that we
think is important at one instance in time... attackers change and
adapt and multimodal defense is simply good policy.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:

 Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/control
 plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when
 much
 of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see botnets).


 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure, yes,
 protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone else.

 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

 --
 Jo Rhett
 Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and
 other randomness







RE: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread James Jun
 
 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.
 Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than
 protecting anyone else.

Indeed it is important.  And we were discussing about the fact that Force10
does not even offer this critical feature.

 
 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

You are falsely claiming that somehow we're dismissing BCP38 or otherwise
writing it off as some kind of non-important hassle.  You are confused and
misinformed as to the concurrent nature of the ongoing discussion and your
assumptions are far from what I personally think about BCP38.  It appears
you are the first member of I am an asshole club by the strict title
definition.

james 




Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett
Count you which way?  You seem to agree with me.  Everyone should be  
doing both, not discounting BCP38 because they aren't seeing an attack  
right now.


On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:50 AM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:

Count me in.

There is no reason to limit our defenses to the one thing that we
think is important at one instance in time... attackers change and
adapt and multimodal defense is simply good policy.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:


Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38  
when

much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes,
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting  
anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and

other randomness








--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

Count you which way?  You seem to agree with me.  Everyone should be  
doing both, not discounting BCP38 because they aren't seeing an  
attack right now.


No one sees attacks that BCP38 would stop?

Wow, I thought things like the Kaminsky bug were big news.  I guess  
all that was for nothing?


(Yes, I am being sarcastic.  Anyone who thinks attacks which BCP 38  
would stop are not happening in the wild is .. I believe the phrase  
used was confused and misinformed.)


--
TTFN,
patrick




On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:50 AM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:

Count me in.

There is no reason to limit our defenses to the one thing that we
think is important at one instance in time... attackers change and
adapt and multimodal defense is simply good policy.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jo Rhett  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:


Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp- 
policer/control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing  
BCP38 when

much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes,
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting  
anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open  
source and

other randomness








--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness









Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread james
 On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
  Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box
  (cp-policer/  control
  plane filtering) is far more important IMO than
  implementing BCP38   when much
  of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources
  anyway (see   botnets).
 
 
 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the
 blood.Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more
 important than   protecting anyone else.
 
 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an
 asshole club?


OK, I'm an asshole.
I'm sure BCP38 can prove to be useful, but I'll never drop
my shields.

I guess being an asshole is not so bad given that I have
plenty of company.





Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Paul Wall
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure, yes,
 protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone else.

 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

uRPF is important.  But all the uRPF in the world won't protect you
against a little tcp/{22,23,179} SYN aimed at your Force 10 box.

Ya know what I mean?

Paul Wall



Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett
Patrick, it would appear that you are insulting me by your choice of  
quotes but from content one would assume you agree with me.  Perhaps  
next time quote the idiot that said attacks BCP38 would stop don't  
happen any more?

(top posted because the thread is already confused)

On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

Count you which way?  You seem to agree with me.  Everyone should  
be doing both, not discounting BCP38 because they aren't seeing an  
attack right now.


No one sees attacks that BCP38 would stop?

Wow, I thought things like the Kaminsky bug were big news.  I guess  
all that was for nothing?


(Yes, I am being sarcastic.  Anyone who thinks attacks which BCP 38  
would stop are not happening in the wild is .. I believe the phrase  
used was confused and misinformed.)


--
TTFN,
patrick




On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:50 AM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:

Count me in.

There is no reason to limit our defenses to the one thing that we
think is important at one instance in time... attackers change and
adapt and multimodal defense is simply good policy.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jo Rhett  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:


Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp- 
policer/control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing  
BCP38 when

much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes,
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting  
anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open  
source and

other randomness








--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness









--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Paul Wall wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED]  
wrote:
I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes,
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting  
anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?


uRPF is important.  But all the uRPF in the world won't protect you
against a little tcp/{22,23,179} SYN aimed at your Force 10 box.

Ya know what I mean?



No.  Because our F10s aren't suspectible to that, period.  I think  
this whole control panel policing is flat out wrong, but honestly to  
argue that point I'd have to do some research into what Cisco is doing  
these days (never had most of the good anti-dos and flood-control  
stuff F10 has last time I looked) and frankly, it's not within my  
scope of work so I left that alone.


The focus of my comment was on the BCP38 isn't important, because  
*THAT* is something that causes grief for me (and everyone) in the day  
job.


--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:14 AM, james wrote:

OK, I'm an asshole. I'm sure BCP38 can prove to be useful
I guess being an asshole is not so bad given that I have
plenty of company.



It is unfortunately true that you do have lots of company.  If I could  
get away with dropping all routes from people like you I'd be a lot  
happier.  (and we'd all be a lot safer)


--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore

On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:14 PM, james wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:

Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box
(cp-policer/  control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than
implementing BCP38   when much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources
anyway (see   botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the
blood.Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more
important than   protecting anyone else.

Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an
asshole club?



OK, I'm an asshole.
I'm sure BCP38 can prove to be useful, but I'll never drop
my shields.


I am pretty certain James was not suggesting you drop your shields.   
My understanding is he thinks anyone who -only- protects their own  
router CPUs, but lets random packets leave their network with fake  
source addresses for other networks is an ass hole (shields up or not).


Assuming that is what he meant, I agree with him.

Now, would you care to reiterate your ass-hole-ness and admit to 10s  
of 1000s of your closest friends that you let your users attack them  
(and me!) in undetectable ways, make things like the Kaminsky DNS  
vulnerability possible, etc.?


--
TTFN,
patrick




Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread james
 On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:14 AM, james wrote:
  OK, I'm an asshole. I'm sure BCP38 can prove to be
  useful I guess being an asshole is not so bad given that
  I have plenty of company.
 
 
 It is unfortunately true that you do have lots of company.
  If I could   get away with dropping all routes from
 people like you I'd be a lot   happier.  (and we'd all be
 a lot safer)


Let me put this another way.
Calling people names doesn't promote your interests. It
starts flame wars.





Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore

On Sep 4, 2008, at 1:12 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

Patrick, it would appear that you are insulting me by your choice of  
quotes but from content one would assume you agree with me.  Perhaps  
next time quote the idiot that said attacks BCP38 would stop don't  
happen any more?

(top posted because the thread is already confused)


Sorry for the confusion.

Yes, I am a BCP38 evangelist.  I apologize if it came across wrong.

--
TTFN,
patrick



On Sep 4, 2008, at 10:05 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:52 PM, Jo Rhett wrote:

Count you which way?  You seem to agree with me.  Everyone should  
be doing both, not discounting BCP38 because they aren't seeing an  
attack right now.


No one sees attacks that BCP38 would stop?

Wow, I thought things like the Kaminsky bug were big news.  I guess  
all that was for nothing?


(Yes, I am being sarcastic.  Anyone who thinks attacks which BCP 38  
would stop are not happening in the wild is .. I believe the phrase  
used was confused and misinformed.)


--
TTFN,
patrick




On Sep 4, 2008, at 9:50 AM, John C. A. Bambenek wrote:

Count me in.

There is no reason to limit our defenses to the one thing that we
think is important at one instance in time... attackers change and
adapt and multimodal defense is simply good policy.

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Jo Rhett  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:


Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp- 
policer/control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing  
BCP38 when

much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the  
blood.  Sure, yes,
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting  
anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open  
source and

other randomness








--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open  
source and other randomness









--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness








Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Greg Hankins
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 01:14:20PM -0400, Paul Wall wrote:
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Jo Rhett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure, yes,
 protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone else.

 Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?

uRPF is important.  But all the uRPF in the world won't protect you
against a little tcp/{22,23,179} SYN aimed at your Force 10 box.

Ya know what I mean?

Hey Paul, would you be able to demonstrate this problem?  I'd like to see
it so that we can investigate and fix it.

You are correct that the first generation of E-Series hardware (EtherScale)
had little control plane protection.

The current E-Series hardware (TeraScale) has a completely different
architecture that rate limits, queues and filters all packets destined to
the control plane.

Greg*

(* I am currently employed by Force10.)

-- 
Greg Hankins [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Gadi Evron

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:

Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when 
much

of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure, yes, 
protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?


I'm an a??hole! :o)
(lotsa folks get corporate bad words filters, here).

Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first. The 
problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from recent years, 
but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/





--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other 
randomness








RE: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread michael.dillon
 Sorry for the confusion.
  ^
 
 Yes, I am a BCP38 evangelist.  I apologize if it came across wrong.
 ^^^

OK, Patrick is setting an example. Could we all do likewise and
get back to a civil conversation?

 TTFN,
 patrick

Kudos for a good example.

People on this list should not be surprised that other list members
do not know everything. This doesn't make them idiots, it just means
that there is an opportunity for you to politely educate them and
hopefully
gain a few converts to whatever cause you are championing.

--Michael Dillon



Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore

On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38  
when much
of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than  
protecting anyone else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?


I'm an a??hole! :o)
(lotsa folks get corporate bad words filters, here).

Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first.  
The problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from  
recent years, but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/


Gadi,

Do you really want to suggest to people that they not implement BCP38?

--
TTFN,
patrick




Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first.  
The problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from  
recent years, but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/



Nice going, Gadi -- let's insult someone who does a good job of  
protecting your network from his customers.


I spend at least 8 hours a week tracking down attacks originating from  
non-BCP38 networks.  This is still a real problem, and the idea that  
BCP-38 is some fad that is irrelevant now ... I have no words for this  
kind of idiocy.  Everyone should be doing BCP-38.  Why don't you apply  
this to your network, instead of sitting around insulting people for  
your incorrect assumptions about their job?


--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Gadi Evron

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
control
plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38 when 
much

of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see botnets).



I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.  Sure, 
yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than protecting anyone 
else.


Anyone else want to stand up and join the I am an asshole club?


I'm an a??hole! :o)
(lotsa folks get corporate bad words filters, here).

Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first. The 
problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from recent years, 
but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/


Gadi,

Do you really want to suggest to people that they not implement BCP38?


No. Thank you for calling me on not explaining well.

I suggest that the guy is right. People should tajke care of their 
security first before going out and shouting at the world. That said, I 
also state that he is probably not in touch with what's been going on in 
the past few years.


Meaning, botnets *do* use spoofing, and DNS amplification attacks. The 
threat is not theoretical for a few years now and he may simply not be 
in on it.


As to preaching BCP38, well... it's not an easy leap of thought to make, 
that your security is tied into the state of security of a box sitting 
half-way around the world. But that's the case.


Gadi.


--
TTFN,
patrick






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Gadi Evron

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first. The 
problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from recent years, 
but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/



Nice going, Gadi -- let's insult someone who does a good job of protecting 
your network from his customers.


I spend at least 8 hours a week tracking down attacks originating from 
non-BCP38 networks.  This is still a real problem, and the idea that BCP-38 
is some fad that is irrelevant now ... I have no words for this kind of 
idiocy.  Everyone should be doing BCP-38.  Why don't you apply this to your 
network, instead of sitting around insulting people for your incorrect 
assumptions about their job?


I apologize for making an incorrect assumption and apparently insulting 
you.
My assumption was based on the threading in the email I replied to, as 
what you write here conpletely contradicts what was written there.


So, we all support BCP38 and nothing really changed from the last time we 
all had this discussion about why most of us don't use it.



--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other 
randomness







Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Jo Rhett

On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
I apologize for making an incorrect assumption and apparently  
insulting you.
My assumption was based on the threading in the email I replied to,  
as what you write here conpletely contradicts what was written there.


Yeah, I think the threading was getting confused quite a bit.

So, we all support BCP38 and nothing really changed from the last  
time we all had this discussion about why most of us don't use it.



On that you'll have to speak for yourself.  We have it on every  
customer port ;-)


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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness






Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Gadi Evron

On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:

On Sep 4, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
I apologize for making an incorrect assumption and apparently insulting 
you.
My assumption was based on the threading in the email I replied to, as what 
you write here conpletely contradicts what was written there.


Yeah, I think the threading was getting confused quite a bit.

So, we all support BCP38 and nothing really changed from the last time we 
all had this discussion about why most of us don't use it.



On that you'll have to speak for yourself.  We have it on every customer port 
;-)


Now that is interesting. Can you share a bit about you rimplementation 
hardships, costs, customer complaints, etc?


Gadi.



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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other 
randomness







Re: BCP38 dismissal

2008-09-04 Thread Mark Andrews
 So, we all support BCP38 and nothing really changed from the last  
 time we all had this discussion about why most of us don't use it.


On that you'll have to speak for yourself.  We have it on every  
customer port ;-)

I hope you *also* have it on your NOC and everywhere else
that it is practical to have it.  Every machine can potentially
be taken over and used as a launch point.

Mark
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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness