Re: [DNSOP] Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Joe Abley
Dean, On 1 Sep 2008, at 20:57, Dean Anderson wrote: mostly operations people (as opposed to credible engineers)? If av8.net starts selling t-shirts, I'll take one with that phrase. There is no harm in public resolvers. Not to the people running the resolvers, usually, no. Joe

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Joe Abley wrote: Dean, On 1 Sep 2008, at 20:57, Dean Anderson wrote: mostly operations people (as opposed to credible engineers)? If av8.net starts selling t-shirts, I'll take one with that phrase. Perhaps a t-shirt should have this quote from Paul Vixie:

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Danny McPherson
On Sep 2, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Joe Abley wrote: There is usually no harm to anyone from open resolvers. No one has reported any further attacks since this draft was conceived. That is not true. It's possible that the forums in which such attacks are discussed are not available to you, of

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Joe Abley wrote: On 2 Sep 2008, at 11:04, Dean Anderson wrote: There is no harm in public resolvers. Not to the people running the resolvers, usually, no. There is usually no harm to anyone from open resolvers. No one has reported any further attacks since

[DNSOP] DNSKEY / multiprecision number format? (fwd)

2008-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
If someone could forward this to DNSEXT WG, I would appreciate it. Thanks, --Dean -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:14:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNSKEY / multiprecision number format? I'm

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Joe Abley
On 2 Sep 2008, at 13:43, Dean Anderson wrote: Really? Your position is that there are attacks but all these attacks are somehow being kept secret? People talked about ping floods, syn floods, and an uncountable slew of other attacks. Incredible. My point is that there are a large number of

Re: [DNSOP] I think we may have a solution - DNSCurve

2008-09-02 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:49:12PM -0400, Paul Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 18 lines which said: many issues there which are not addressed [...] authenticated denial of existence, Although I agree with your criticism that there is no published *specification* of DNScurve

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Andrews
2) Why would anyone capble of programming bother searching for open recursors (with often small connection speeds) when they can use 100+ root servers with large amplification factors and high bandwidth connections at key exchange points? Because there are much better amplification

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Kevin Darcy
Dean Anderson wrote: A useful technique for scan detection is a non-production special server. Scanners show up in the logs; no one else does. Dnscache, BIND, and PowerDNS all have necessary the logging capabilities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing) - Kevin

Re: [DNSOP] I think we may have a solution - DNSCurve

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Andrews
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 04:49:12PM -0400, Paul Wouters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 18 lines which said: many issues there which are not addressed [...] authenticated denial of existence, Although I agree with your criticism that there is no published *specification* of

Re: [DNSOP] DNSKEY / multiprecision number format? (fwd)

2008-09-02 Thread Mark Andrews
If someone could forward this to DNSEXT WG, I would appreciate it. Thanks, --Dean -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:14:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: DNSKEY / multiprecision number format?

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Joe Abley wrote: On 2 Sep 2008, at 13:43, Dean Anderson wrote: Really? Your position is that there are attacks but all these attacks are somehow being kept secret? People talked about ping floods, syn floods, and an uncountable slew of other attacks. Incredible.

Re: [DNSOP] Reflectors are Evil was Re: Anycast was Re: Cache poisoning on DNSSEC

2008-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Danny McPherson wrote: On Sep 2, 2008, at 12:44 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: I find this hard to believe from three standpoints: 1) the expected number of open DNS recursors and their collective bandwidth doesn't seem to be large enough to support a 40Gbps attack.