Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Lutz Donnerhacke
* John Kristoff wrote: And why auditors do not like tcp53 open to public? They may have an outdated, naive view of what should be open and what shouldn't be? Show them the above and ask them why. I'd be curious what the response is. We have never seen TCP/53 in public beside strange

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Michele Neylon :: Blacknight
We've seen large companies' sysadmins being adamant that their firewall setup was correct and that we didn't know DNS .. .. even though every single article and test result proved otherwise .. Never underestimate stupidity and ignorance :) Mr Michele Neylon Blacknight Solutions ♞ Hosting

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joe Abley: The assumption is that firewall means device that keeps state. This could be a firewall, or a NAT, or an in-line DPI device, or something similar. We're not talking about stateless packet filters. I think you still can't serve UDP over IPv6 without per-client sate, keeping both

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On May 1, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: I wonder when this statefullness of IPv6 UDP traffic will cause practical problems, One rather suspects that there are many more implications to moving fragmentation to the endpoint nodes which have yet to be fully understood (for example,

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Mike Hoskins (michoski)
-Original Message- From: Michele Neylon :: Blacknight mich...@blacknight.com Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 8:21 AM To: Lutz Donnerhacke l...@iks-jena.de Cc: dns-operati...@mail.dns-oarc.net dns-operati...@mail.dns-oarc.net Subject: Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue We've seen large companies

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Tony Finch
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: I think you still can't serve UDP over IPv6 without per-client sate, keeping both full RFC conformance and interoperability with the existing client population. Pre-fragmentation to 1280 or so bytes isn't enough, you also have to generate atomic

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Florian Weimer
* Tony Finch: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: I think you still can't serve UDP over IPv6 without per-client sate, keeping both full RFC conformance and interoperability with the existing client population. Pre-fragmentation to 1280 or so bytes isn't enough, you also have to

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Paul Vixie
Tony Finch wrote: ... don't fragment and restrict the EDNS buffer size to 1280. I'm somewhat amazed that DNS-over-fragmented-UDP works as well as it does. See also https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/dnssec-what-every-sysadmin-should-be-doing-keep-things-working and:

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-05-01 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.lsu.2.00.1305011825160.19...@hermes-2.csi.cam.ac.uk, Tony F inch writes: Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de wrote: I think you still can't serve UDP over IPv6 without per-client sate, keeping both full RFC conformance and interoperability with the existing client

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-29 Thread Edward Lewis
On Apr 26, 2013, at 8:24, Cihan SUBASI (GARANTI TEKNOLOJI) wrote: Hi, Also can someone explain why tcp53 should be allowed on the firewalls if dns is behind a firewall? In addition to other already posted reasons, TCP isn't susceptible to reflection attacks. (FWIW.) And why auditors

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: I think that in many cases it is not that the named version doesn't support randomization, but rather that they / their firewall group believes that DNS should only be allowed on port 53 (and UDP, natch). The actual problem being that the

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread WBrown
From: Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net The actual problem being that the DNS servers oughtn't to be behind a firewall in the first place. Can you elaborate on your statement? I can guess what the reaction around here would be if I suggested it. Confidentiality Notice: This electronic

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-04-26, at 08:11, wbr...@e1b.org wrote: From: Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net The actual problem being that the DNS servers oughtn't to be behind a firewall in the first place. Can you elaborate on your statement? I can guess what the reaction around here would be if I

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Cihan SUBASI (GARANTI TEKNOLOJI)
Of wbr...@e1b.org Sent: Friday, April 26, 2013 3:11 PM To: Dobbins, Roland Cc: dns-operations@lists.dns-oarc.net List; dns-operations-boun...@lists.dns-oarc.net Subject: Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue From: Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net The actual problem being that the DNS servers oughtn't

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Phil Regnauld
Joe Abley (jabley) writes: The number of stateful firewalls that can happily handle occasional flows of up to 100,000 flows per second two/from individual devices are few. Yours probably isn't one of them. Corollary: whatever device you'll be putting in front of the DNS servers

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:24 PM, Cihan SUBASI (GARANTI TEKNOLOJI) wrote: Also can someone explain why tcp53 should be allowed on the firewalls if dns is behind a firewall? Truncate mode. And why auditors do not like tcp53 open to public? 'Security' misinformation spread by firewall vendors

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Joe Abley wrote: The number of stateful firewalls that can happily handle occasional flows of up to 100,000 flows per second two/from individual devices are few. Yours probably isn't one of them. I've seen 3mb/sec of spoofed SYN-flood take down a stateful

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 26, 2013, at 7:29 PM, Phil Regnauld wrote: In general, vendors of attack mitigation equipment rarely advise you about what you'll need in the future, only what they can sell you now. +1. The architecture should be designed for horizontal scalability from the outset.

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Warren Kumari
On Apr 26, 2013, at 4:32 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Apr 26, 2013, at 12:27 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: I think that in many cases it is not that the named version doesn't support randomization, but rather that they / their firewall group believes that DNS should only

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread John Kristoff
On Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:24:01 + Cihan SUBASI (GARANTI TEKNOLOJI) cih...@garanti.com.tr wrote: Also can someone explain why tcp53 should be allowed on the firewalls if dns is behind a firewall? DNS over TCP is not just for zone transfers. Many legitimate queries and answers, will be carried

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net Because someone told them the wrong thing and they don't know any difference. Just because they're an auditor doesn't mean they are clued. Simple thing would be to show them a dns query that requires tcp, such as: Would you show anything to a doctor

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Morris
Good timing... On Fri, 26 Apr 2013, Cihan SUBASI (GARANTI TEKNOLOJI) wrote: Also can someone explain why tcp53 should be allowed on the firewalls if dns is behind a firewall? And why auditors do not like tcp53 open to public? See, that's another of the arguments why DNS should *not* be

[dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-24 Thread Samir Abidali
Dears I wonder if someone can guide me in the direction for troubleshooting my DNS issues. I work in the regional ISP, we have to DNS servers where it works fine for most of the Domain names but it cannot resolve some others, like dyn.com. When I try to do dig + trace , below is the output,

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-24 Thread Chip Marshall
On 2013-04-24, Samir Abidali samir.abid...@gorannet.net sent: I wonder if someone can guide me in the direction for troubleshooting my DNS issues. I work in the regional ISP, we have to DNS servers where it works fine for most of the Domain names but it cannot resolve some others, like

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-24 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2013/04/24, at 09:06, Samir Abidali wrote: I wonder if someone can guide me in the direction for troubleshooting my DNS issues. I work in the regional ISP, we have to DNS servers where it works fine for most of the Domain names but it cannot resolve some others, like dyn.com. I wasn't

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-24 Thread Paul Wouters
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013, Chip Marshall wrote: Are you doing query source port randomization? https://www.dns-oarc.net/oarc/services/porttest I have been hearing more reports of people in the last two weeks that DNS queries originating from port 53 are getting blocked. slashdot.org was one of

Re: [dns-operations] DNS Issue

2013-04-24 Thread Jason Bratton
Paul Wouters wrote: I have been hearing more reports of people in the last two weeks that DNS queries originating from port 53 are getting blocked. slashdot.org was one of those domains that started failing when your recursing name server is configured to use a query port of 53. We've seen