Hijacked IP blocks

2003-10-20 Thread william
As some of you have seen from sessions today, hijacking of ips has been noticed by many. I want to give report of what the current situation is as I've been monitoring known hijacked ip ranges and active use of those. The active list is included later in this email and is available online at htt

Re: Interesting ASN usage data point

2003-10-20 Thread Joe Abley
On 20 Oct 2003, at 21:12, John Brown (CV) wrote: Interested data point Those ASNs have all been assigned by the respective RIR (and LIR, in one case) to ISC for use as part of ISC's ongoing effort to distribute the F root nameserver globally. Each of the anycast instances of F is designed to

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Jack Bates
todd glassey wrote: Richard - Do they (Verisign) have any legal reason to??? - is there anything between them and ANY of their clients that requires them to inform them before any changes to protocol facilities are made - I think not. To inform? Not yet, although I have the feeling that this will

Dos attack?

2003-10-20 Thread Eric Frazier
Hi, We are getting a LOT of web requests containing what mostly looks like giberish. [Mon Oct 20 21:13:42 2003] [error] [client 172.133.3.204] request failed: erroneous characters after protocol string: \xb8\xcf\xc235\x9f\xc4\x1c\xebj\xd7\xc5\x8e\xe9d>\xfdMe\xed\x16\xca\xd51\xcfReF\x82\xa3qi\x

Interesting ASN usage data point

2003-10-20 Thread John Brown (CV)
Interested data point 23707 23708 23709 23710 APNIC ASN's 23711 23712 23713 25572 RIPE ASN's 27318 27319 27320 ARIN ASN's 27321 27322 30122 30123 30124 30124 30124 30124 30124 ARIN ASN's 30124 30130 30131 30132 30133 30134

Re[4]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:55:32 -0700 todd glassey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do they (Verisign) have any legal reason to??? - is there anything between > them and ANY of their clients that requires them to inform them before any > changes to protocol facilities are made - I think not. i'd say th

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 2:35 PM -0700 10/20/03, Henry Linneweh wrote: I see serious troubles ahead, imagine a client of a client who has lets say 3,000+ servers on-line and new list of clients is added and there is a typo and all 3,000 servers are redirected with 10's of thousands of clients, each with the potential to

Re[4]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 20:06:50 -0400 "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would suggest, however, that the number of people that do read > these lists run mail servers with more end users than the small > system administrators that do not. true, but this can be interpreted as "the

pgp keysigning party at 9pm, salon F

2003-10-20 Thread Joe Abley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have just cut a keyring with the 34 keys sent in for tonight's key party, which you will find at: http://www.isc.org/misc/nanog29.pgp http://www.isc.org/misc/nanog29.txt (ASCII-armoured version) Fingerprints are below, and will also be available

Re[3]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:15:23 -0400 "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 5:04 PM -0400 10/20/03, Richard Welty wrote: >may i suggest another operational issue then? >how does verisign plan to identify and notify all affected parties >when changes >are proposed? >for example,

Re: Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread todd glassey
Richard - Do they (Verisign) have any legal reason to??? - is there anything between them and ANY of their clients that requires them to inform them before any changes to protocol facilities are made - I think not. Todd - Original Message - From: "Richard Welty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote: > > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how > much lead time do you need to make such change

Re: And in other news...

2003-10-20 Thread Greg Maxwell
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: > Bret Baptist wrote: > > The NANOG mailing list has been renamed to VOTDG. This stands for Verisign > > Off Topic Discussion Group. > Good plan--nothing about DNS is an operational issue either. no no you misunderstood... What is offtopic is

Re: And in other news...

2003-10-20 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Bret Baptist wrote: > > The NANOG mailing list has been renamed to VOTDG. This stands for Verisign > Off Topic Discussion Group. Good plan--nothing about DNS is an operational issue either.

And in other news...

2003-10-20 Thread Bret Baptist
The NANOG mailing list has been renamed to VOTDG. This stands for Verisign Off Topic Discussion Group. -- Bret Baptist Systems and Technical Support Specialist [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Exposure, Inc. http://www.iexposure.com (612)676-1946 x17 Web Development-Web Marketing-ISP Services ---

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Henry Linneweh
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1   Oh boy, well first and foremost the root servers and database areowned by the public because they were paid for from the TAX-BASE.   Second and foremost the technology to redirect web pages and ips isnot new or innovative, kiddies used to do it on

Re[3]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:15:23 -0400 "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 5:04 PM -0400 10/20/03, Richard Welty wrote: > >may i suggest another operational issue then? > >how does verisign plan to identify and notify all affected parties > >when changes > >are proposed? > >for ex

RE: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread David Schwartz
> A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how > much lead time do you need to make such changes safely? You can't s

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 5:09 PM -0400 10/20/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm trying to avoid h

Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 5:04 PM -0400 10/20/03, Richard Welty wrote: On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm trying to avoid her

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 EDT, "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers

Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 16:31:45 -0400 "Steven M. Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Israel
On 10/20/2003 at 16:31:45 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin said: > > A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to > pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm > trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how > much lead tim

Re: Observation on SiteFinder

2003-10-20 Thread Ray Bellis
> From the "Technical Adviser" column in today's > Wall Street Journal: > > So, what kind of tips do the tipsters give you? > Here's a typical one: Before you type in a Web > address in your browser, in nearly all cases > you don't need the "www " part; you'll be taken > where you want to go witho

More on Versign Vs. ... .. ...

2003-10-20 Thread Robert Mathews
Trouble Grows at the Internet's Root By Kevin Murphy http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/165c8acb5f79bb5780256dc50018bddd

Re: Completewhois Bogons Project - Initial Intro

2003-10-20 Thread william
Answering concerns presented here (did not have time before while preparing to leave for nanog conference) > At 12:12 PM 17-10-03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > It would appear you are not checking whois.nic.mil for allocations as > well. All the US DOD/DISA stuff is registered there an

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
A number of people havce responded that they don't want to be forced to pay for a change that will benefit Verisign. That's a policy issue I'm trying to avoid here. I'm looking for pure technical answers -- how much lead time do you need to make such changes safely? --Steve

Re: Postini?

2003-10-20 Thread Jason Houx
Drew, Yes and quoting from their pages: Current System Issues: Status Last Updated: 1:00PM PDT Incident start time: 8:00AM PDT Description of incident: Very heavy Monday morning load on all Postini mail serv

Re: Postini?

2003-10-20 Thread John Brown (CV)
Yes, they never responded to any of our emails when we had issues a couple of weeks ago. john brown chagres technologies, inc On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 03:41:19PM -0400, Drew Weaver wrote: > Hi, is anyone else having a very difficult time reaching > Postini? > > > > Thanks, > > -

Paging Jim McBurnett

2003-10-20 Thread Dr. Jeffrey Race
On 13 Oct 2003 20:15:22 +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi. This is the qmail-send program at asianet.co.th. >I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses. >This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out. > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have mail for

Postini?

2003-10-20 Thread Drew Weaver
    Hi, is anyone else having a very difficult time reaching Postini?   Thanks, -Drew  

Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

2003-10-20 Thread Frederico A C Neves
Hank, On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:55:18PM +0200, Hank Nussbacher wrote: > At 01:28 PM 20-10-03 -0200, Frederico A C Neves wrote: > > >Hank, > > > >These whois servers uses an output format "based" on RPSL with added > >extensions for organizations and dns delegation status. > > Can you point me

Re: Observation on SiteFinder

2003-10-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ray Bellis" writes: > >Has it occurred to anyone else that the side effects of Verisign's >wildcard record might have been very much reduced if the wildcard had >only worked if the address being resolved actually started 'www.' ? > >Not that I ever want to see Veri

at nanog29? monday night, chicago

2003-10-20 Thread Dave Plonka
NANOG folks, If you're attending NANOG29 and looking for something to do this evening (Monday) in Chicago, you're welcome to join us to see Pat McCurdy play tonight at a place called Beat Kitchen. The show starts at 10PM - $5 cover. It'd be good to get there ~9PM. Pat usually plays a mix of hi

Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 14:19:36 -0400 William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Postfix is run by a lot more enterprises than BIND, let's double > that number! How about, until all the W95 and W98 and W2K servers are > updated if verisgn thinks this ought to get done faster, i

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 10:57 AM -0700 10/20/03, Owen DeLong wrote: OK... I've been lurking for a while. I think the definition IAB intended to express concern about was: Backbones (transit providers) deploying [permanent] filtration on their connections with other ISPs. I would like to propose the following terminol

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread todd glassey
I said 90 days myself - 30 of investigation and 30 to plan and then 30 to clean-up whatever messes the act causes. Todd - Original Message - From: "Owen DeLong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Steve Bellovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 11:02 AM Subj

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
Steve Bellovin wrote: > > ... We heard this morning that Postfix is an application that > will need to be changed to handle the proposed new version of > Sitefinder's MX record. Of course, it's generally considered a good > idea to test sofware before deploying it. > > So -- how much notice wou

Re[2]: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Richard Welty
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:31:41 -0400 Kee Hinckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > More importantly--Verisign needs to deploy alternate servers so it's > actually possible to test software against the changes they propose > to make. Otherwise we're just running around guessing what the > behavior is

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Owen DeLong
I like John Currans proposed timeline of Length of Verisign Contract+1 day. However, absent that, I think that 12 months to the operational community and 24 months to the enterprise community is probably a reasonable starting point as long as they are willing to accept delays if a significant po

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread Owen DeLong
OK... I've been lurking for a while. I think the definition IAB intended to express concern about was: Backbones (transit providers) deploying [permanent] filtration on their connections with other ISPs. I would like to propose the following terminology definitions FOR THIS EMAIL message and ask

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Kee Hinckley
At 10:59 AM -0400 10/20/03, Steve Bellovin wrote: So -- how much notice would the operator community want before deploying new software? What about for enterprises? (We all know that stuff *can* be deployed more quickly in emergency circumstances. We also know the problems that that can lead to,

RE: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Howard C. Berkowitz wrote: > Given that this functionality does exist in web browsers, there's > the flavor of monopolistic competition that may be vulnerable to > antitrust action. Verisign is indeed being monopolistic here. But you still have a choice of di

Re: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Andrew - Supernews
> "Geo" == Geo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Geo> Got something really weird going on and I need a bit of help Geo> from someone who is really good with dns. Geo> Domain elby.ch Geo> seems to resolve from some DNS servers but not from others. Can Geo> you see anything that might break d

Observation on SiteFinder

2003-10-20 Thread Ray Bellis
Has it occurred to anyone else that the side effects of Verisign's wildcard record might have been very much reduced if the wildcard had only worked if the address being resolved actually started 'www.' ? Not that I ever want to see Verisign's abomination resurrected, of course... Ray -- Ray B

sclavos interview (Re: data request on Sitefinder)

2003-10-20 Thread Paul Vixie
> > ... would really mean that the internet is yet another > > commercial thing controlled by one single entity. > > Look at the interview with Verisign's CEO at > http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html?tag=nefd_gutspro, and I > think you'll see that your "what it would really mean" is exac

Re: Green peering stickers

2003-10-20 Thread william
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Tom (UnitedLayer) wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Northern California, would mean SF Bay Area or not? > > The Bay Area is NorCal... Certainly is in the way this term is used by everyone (geographically bay area is in the center of california state,

Re: Notice Periods

2003-10-20 Thread Michael . Dillon
>So -- how much notice would the operator community want before >deploying new software? What about for enterprises? (We all know that >stuff *can* be deployed more quickly in emergency circumstances. We >also know the problems that that can lead to, which is why we generally >want testing

Re: Green peering stickers

2003-10-20 Thread Tom (UnitedLayer)
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Northern California, would mean SF Bay Area or not? The Bay Area is NorCal... > Or did you mean real "Northern" part of California (i.e. around Shasta)? I believe the technical term is "boonies" but thats a minor detail :)

RE: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Karyn Ulriksen
The name servers for the domain elby.ch do not reverse resolve. For example: ns1.elbyns.de resolves to 62.116.130.76, but 62.116.130.76 does not resolve back ns1.elbyns.de. It's not clear through the RIPE Whois search (this IP block is within a RIPE range) who does name service for the IP bloc

Re: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread todd glassey
Jeroen - and Howard - - Original Message - From: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >*if* Verisign gets it through that the installed base has > >to bend over because they introduce such a thing it would > >be a very bad thing for the internet as a whole and it would > >real

Re: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread just me
Eh? I don't see a delegation to tulku.nic.ar. anywhere down the delegation chain. . says ch nameservers are: NS.APNIC.NET. 2D IN A 203.37.255.97 DOMREG.NIC.ch. 2D IN A 130.59.1.80 MERAPI.SWITCH.ch. 2D IN A 130.59.211.10 DNS.PRINCETON.EDU. 2

Re: Green peering stickers

2003-10-20 Thread william
Northern California, would mean SF Bay Area or not? Or did you mean real "Northern" part of California (i.e. around Shasta)? On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Dan Lockwood wrote: > > Although I fail to have one of the stickers, if there is anyone at the > meeting that is operating in the northern Californi

Re: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Mike Lewinski
Geo. wrote: Got something really weird going on and I need a bit of help from someone who is really good with dns. Domain elby.ch FWIW, this is often a good site to use when troubleshooting such issues: http://dnsreport.com/

Re: Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 11:56 AM 20-10-03 -0400, Geo. wrote: Got something really weird going on and I need a bit of help from someone who is really good with dns. Domain elby.ch See: http://www.dnsreport.com/tools/dnsreport.ch?domain=elby.ch There is a warning for parent servers: Your NS records APPEAR to be: ns2.e

Green peering stickers

2003-10-20 Thread Dan Lockwood
Although I fail to have one of the stickers, if there is anyone at the meeting that is operating in the northern California area and would like to discuss peering please send me a message off-list. I'm interested to learn what other operations are in the area. Thanks! Dan Lockwood

Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

2003-10-20 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 01:28 PM 20-10-03 -0200, Frederico A C Neves wrote: Hank, These whois servers uses an output format "based" on RPSL with added extensions for organizations and dns delegation status. Can you point me to documentation on the extensions? Any plan on RFCing? The whois server at the .BR regist

Need a DNS expert

2003-10-20 Thread Geo.
Got something really weird going on and I need a bit of help from someone who is really good with dns. Domain elby.ch seems to resolve from some DNS servers but not from others. Can you see anything that might break dns resolution for this domain? Specifically it appears NT4 dns servers with Sec

RE: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Howard C. Berkowitz
At 5:22 PM +0200 10/20/03, Jeroen Massar wrote: Ahem, so Verisign wants to change the complete working of the internet with the currently installed base because they want to gather all the typo's??? Are they going to pay us the money for upgrading/verification/checking/testing etc? Fix the Webbro

Re: Whois software run by Lacnic and BR?

2003-10-20 Thread Frederico A C Neves
Hank, These whois servers uses an output format "based" on RPSL with added extensions for organizations and dns delegation status. The whois server at the .BR registry (also the NIR for Brazil) doesn't provide country information because it's implicit as it only provide information for Brazil.

RE: data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Jeroen Massar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Steve Bellovin wrote: > The session this morning ran out of time, so I didn't get to ask my > question. > > Verisign's review panel has identified a number of problems > -- I won't > argue if they're minor or not -- that are addressable with software > cha

data request on Sitefinder

2003-10-20 Thread Steve Bellovin
The session this morning ran out of time, so I didn't get to ask my question. Verisign's review panel has identified a number of problems -- I won't argue if they're minor or not -- that are addressable with software changes. We heard this morning that Postfix is an application that will nee

Re: Verislime NSI details

2003-10-20 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, David Lesher wrote: > Solutions, the Herndon-based registrar of Internet addresses, > for $100 million in a deal that will allow VeriSign to retain > exclusive control of the valuable .com and .net database. And NetSlow is now offering free domain transfers - http://www.netw

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:00:58AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 35 lines which said: > then there is the idea of "permanent" deployment ... > little is permanent in networking. the hard problem > is when vendors put filters in silicon. :(

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread Randy Bush
>>> prudent/paranoid folk over the years have persuaded me that >>> it makes the best sense to only run those applications/services >>> that I need to and shut off everything else - until/unless there >>> is a demonstrated need for it. >> very true for a host, even somewhat true for a site. ver

Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

2003-10-20 Thread bmanning
> > > prudent/paranoid folk over the years have persuaded me that > > it makes the best sense to only run those applications/services > > that I need to and shut off everything else - until/unless there > > is a demonstrated need for it. > > very true for a host, even somewhat true for a site.