Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Smith; I'll continue reading, although I'm happy enough that my original understanding was correct. Let's agree that you are as correct as PMTUD. If you have further comments, do so offline. Masataka Ohta

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Scott Bradner
looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st RFCs, and republication of documents from other SDOs - the IESG and the RFC Editor keep a running dialogue on which

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-10 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 5/10/2004 3:02 AM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote: So a secure ports only policy has very little to do with security and very much to do with organizational power relationships, and making your computing environment dysfunctional. Somebody check my math on this please, but it seems to me that the

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st RFCs, and republication of documents from other

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 10:57 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: note that I just used the words that were there - do you suggest leaving teh words as they are? if not, maybe you can suggest something better I guess that, before, the text was sufficiently muddy that I didn't

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Scott Bradner
fwiw - this works for me --- From: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP --On Monday, May 10, 2004 10:57 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-10 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/10/04 at 10:54 AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-10 Thread Paul Hoffman / VPNC
At 9:38 AM -0500 5/10/04, Eric A. Hall wrote: On 5/10/2004 3:02 AM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote: So a secure ports only policy has very little to do with security and very much to do with organizational power relationships, and making your computing environment dysfunctional. Somebody check my math

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-10 Thread John Stracke
John Rudd wrote: The problem with the STARTTLS strategy is: you can't guarantee at the network level that a client will use SSL/TLS. Guaranteeing that the client will use TLS is worthless anyway, since TLS includes the None encryption option. -- /==\

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Masataka Ohta wrote: Dean Anderson; I recommend that, to avoid long initial delay and intermediate lack of communication after path changes of, PMTUD should turnd off by default and should be activated only on extreme conditions. Just the opposite, unless you want

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 9, 2004, at 19:33, Dean Anderson wrote: I have only heard that those that block ICMP echo have had problems. Nothing to do with ICMP echo. It's blocking ICMP unreachable, fragmentation needed that causes problems. ICMP unreachables related to known connections should be allowed through

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 10, 2004, at 10:38, Eric A. Hall wrote: Using an encrypted port just means an attack can only produce failure, rather than inducing fallback. Clients generally default to using the unencrypted port. Clients generally default to accepting non-STARTTLS connections. Both require

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Smith; A number of commercial products and applications do rely on PMTU to work, and will do an PATH MTU discovery, and send the MTU sized packets with DF (don't frag). and send packets larger than MTU expecting to receive ICMP errors in vain. Read the original mail of the thread on the

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean Anderson; There were (still are?) number of web servers that wanted to send big packets with DF turned on, because PMTUD was turned on on the servers but ICMP errors were filtered. There still are such apps. I ran into this recently, last winter. So, that is the reality. Note that we run

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On May 10, 2004, at 15:25, Masataka Ohta wrote: Sensible people should block PMTUD, too. Why? Do you just enjoy breaking random things? ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you look at the message, you will note that it is a bounce from the WG co-chair's _personal_ email address, directly to your email address. it was a bounce to a message Mr. Austein posted on DNSOP. I assume you mean it was a bounce to

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2004 03:48:57 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith; A number of commercial products and applications do rely on PMTU to work, and will do an PATH MTU discovery, and send the MTU sized packets withDF (don't frag). and send packets larger than MTU

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Smith; I'm keen to find out if my understanding of PMTUD purpose and operation is incorrect. Read the RFC or my quotation of it. Masataka Ohta ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Mark Smith
On Tue, 11 May 2004 13:44:16 +0900 Masataka Ohta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Smith; I'm keen to find out if my understanding of PMTUD purpose and operation is incorrect. Read the RFC or my quotation of it. Ok, well, I haven't got far into it, and it seems to correspond to what

Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread Dean Anderson
Point of order, please It seems that WG co-chair has begun to use an email address that is defaming Av8 Internet, Inc by returning business email to users of Av8 Internet claiming that Av8 Internet has hijacked some address space. Av8 Internet hereby demands that the IETF immediately end this

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread Ken Raeburn
On May 10, 2004, at 14:17, Dean Anderson wrote: It seems that WG co-chair has begun to use an email address that is defaming Av8 Internet, Inc by returning business email to users of Av8 Internet claiming that Av8 Internet has hijacked some address space. That may or may not be, but since you

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread John Stracke
Dean Anderson wrote: It seems that WG co-chair has begun to use an email address that is defaming Av8 Internet, Inc How is it defamation if the only one that gets the message is Av8? -- /===\ |John Stracke |[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 10 May 2004, Ken Raeburn wrote: On May 10, 2004, at 14:17, Dean Anderson wrote: It seems that WG co-chair has begun to use an email address that is defaming Av8 Internet, Inc by returning business email to users of Av8 Internet claiming that Av8 Internet has hijacked some address

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-10 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 10 May 2004, John Stracke wrote: Dean Anderson wrote: It seems that WG co-chair has begun to use an email address that is defaming Av8 Internet, Inc How is it defamation if the only one that gets the message is Av8? Av8 customers get it. DNSOP and IETF list members have gotten

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-10 Thread Matt Mathis
On Sun, 9 May 2004, Masataka Ohta wrote: Back to the original problem, PMTUD depends on the capabilities of intermediate systems on a path to generate certain ICMP, generation of which is as complex as fragmentation itself, that it is not very end to end. That is, PMTUD is a broken concept.

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-10 Thread RL 'Bob' Morgan
John: There is actually a list for discussion of this topic, [EMAIL PROTECTED], though it hasn't seen much traffic for quite a while. Your note is a reminder that this issue, while much-debated on the various apps-protocol lists a few years ago when the decisions to invent and promote STARTTLS