Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Thu, Jun 10, 2004, David Schwartz wrote: Take some responsibility. How does a person with a DSL line at home take responsibilty if he's away for a month? Is he supposed to hire someone? The same way I did it when I went on holiday. I turned off the DSL router. Adrian --

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Owen DeLong
It all depends upon what the agreement between the customer and the ISP says. It's no unreasonable for the ISP to 'insure' the customer against risks he isn't able to mitigate which the ISP is, even if that means shutting off his service. True, to some extent, but... If someone

Re: TCP-ACK vulnerability (was RE: SSH on the router)

2004-06-11 Thread Alexei Roudnev
I saw a few hackers (in sniffers, computers and personally), but I never saw anyone doing some hack without the reasons. Usually, if you do not see a reason, it is _your_ misunderstanding. Of course, reason can be as simple as _I have MS_ or as complicated as _here is my girlfriend, and if this

MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Buxton
Has anyone done any concrete testing on how well a 7206VXR with an NPE-300 can handle BGP MD5? The box in question has about 25 sessions and is pushing 150Mbps, with a 75% cpu load. I'm curious to know if it's the MD5 taking all the CPU. Thanks, Ben

Re: AV/FW Adoption Sudies

2004-06-11 Thread Michael . Dillon
More likely, the software actually leaks like a sieve, and NEITHER group has even scratched the surface.. How many leaks did the OpenBSD team find when they proactively audited their entire codebase for the first time a few years ago? This would be an indication of just how leaky an O/S might

The Cidr Report

2004-06-11 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jun 11 21:43:32 2004 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of an AS4637 (Reach) router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org/as4637 for a current version of this report. Recent Table

RE: MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Newell, Tony
Ben, My first question would be how big is your prefix list per BGP session? What is really going to task this router with 25 sessions is the BGP Scanner and BGP Router processes. To my knowledge MD5 is just for authenticating the session. I could be wrong. Tony Newell Technical Lead RTSG-BB

[OT] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these? Because you havn't set a Reply-To header? Eg with the list as address? I'm on the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don't need a copy to the list and Cc:'s until

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Why do I have to get two and three copies of each of these? Because you havn't set a Reply-To header? Eg with the list as address? I'm on the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don't need a copy to the

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Andy Dills wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Jeff Shultz wrote: But ultimately, _you_ are responsible for your own systems. Even if the water company is sending me 85% TriChlorEthane? Right. Got it. The victim is always responsible. There you have it folks. Change

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
reply-to: headers are bad. the replier can be sending to the list when they intended to reply privately. hence, many of us have our MTAs strip them before we even get the mail. again, procmail is your friend # prevent dupes # :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 65536 msgid.cache

Re: TCP-ACK vulnerability (was RE: SSH on the router)

2004-06-11 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Private addressing/non routing of the netblock is only of limited use. I assume here the block is in the IGP.. the more customers/networks you serve the more chance of an attack coming from within. Steve On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Alexei Roudnev wrote: Do you have any (even minimal) need to

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:50:26 CDT, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. said: Where is RFC 2821 is this requirement, by the way? RFC 2822 says it is optional but seems to be less than useful in the context here. 2821 is about the SMTP side of things. By the time the MTA is handed a list of RCPT TO's,

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Paul Jakma wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Really? My responsibility to make sure you control your outbound mail. Got it. You really think everyone on this list should remember the preference of every other poster as to whether they do or do not want a direct copy?

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Randy Bush wrote: reply-to: headers are bad. Oh, on that I agree. There are draft RFCs to specify these things better, eg seperating the concept of 'Reply-to' into one policy for list related replies and another for personal, mutt supports these drafts already[1], but there

Re: MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
sh proc cpu should be able to tell you where the load is.. i have a 7206, about 130 bgp sessions (445000 paths) .. not much cpu being used, BGP scanner is the larges with a 5% 1min average Steve On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Ben Buxton wrote: Has anyone done any concrete testing on how well a

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Really? My responsibility to make sure you control your outbound mail. Got it. You really think everyone on this list should remember the preference of every other poster as to whether they do or do not want a direct copy? Maybe we could

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: Or the document a little out-dated and replaced. But not your responsibility huh? 822 might have been superceded, yes, however no newer standards track RFC has made Reply-to obsolete. My point was that Reply-to isnt something new, it's

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread David Schwartz
At 7:07 PM -0700 2004-06-10, David Schwartz wrote: Most of the people on this list see things from the ISP's perspective. However, step back a bit and see it from the user's perspective. Do you expect to pay for phone calls you didn't make or do you expect the person whose

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense and responsibility

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
My last on the topic--maybe even the list. I take the responsibilty for a number of things, depending on the topic of the discussion. In the case of email conversations, particularly email converations on mailing lists, I think there are responsibilites on the author to: Delete all the baggage

Weekly Routing Table Report

2004-06-11 Thread Routing Table Analysis
This is an automated weekly mailing describing the state of the Internet Routing Table as seen from APNIC's router in Japan. Daily listings are sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Routing Table Report 04:00 +10GMT Sat 12 Jun, 2004

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Steve Gibbard
I suspect most of us who are failing to feel Mr. Sheldon's pain on this just fail to understand the burden that's been placed on him by this problem. As an occasional poster to this and other lists, I sometimes get a few duplicate replies, which, being sent directly to me, end up in my regular

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Joel Jaeggli
a quick duplicate elimination in procmail is something like: :0 Whc: msgid.lock | formail -D 16384 msgid.cache :0 a: /dev/null for me it's a substantial lifestyle improvement. On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Steve Gibbard wrote: I suspect most of us who are failing to feel Mr. Sheldon's pain on this

RE: TCP-ACK vulnerability (was RE: SSH on the router)

2004-06-11 Thread Michel Py
Alexei Roudnev wrote: Of course, reason can be as simple as _I have MS_ or as complicated as _here is my girlfriend, and if this system went down, she will be released earlier_ -:) /most common reason was, yep, _getting IRC control_). Or just because I can do it. I call these lame excuses,

Re: MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Patrick W . Gilmore
On Jun 11, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Newell, Tony wrote: My first question would be how big is your prefix list per BGP session? What is really going to task this router with 25 sessions is the BGP Scanner and BGP Router processes. To my knowledge MD5 is just for authenticating the session. I could be

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense and responsibility

2004-06-11 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. wrote: But I'm big on responsibility and I understand that I am pretty close to alone here on that. You're big on responsibility...just as long as the end users aren't held responsible for their networks, right? Which network do you run again?

Re: MD5 BGP performance on a VXR?

2004-06-11 Thread Henning Brauer
* Patrick W.Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004-06-11 20:54]: On Jun 11, 2004, at 8:21 AM, Newell, Tony wrote: My first question would be how big is your prefix list per BGP session? What is really going to task this router with 25 sessions is the BGP Scanner and BGP Router processes. To my

Re: [OnTopic] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 10:52:40 PDT, Steve Gibbard said: As an occasional poster to this and other lists, I sometimes get a few duplicate replies, which, being sent directly to me, end up in my regular mailbox instead of my NANOG folder, and thus require me to actively delete or sort through

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Henry Linneweh
Here are a list of very active ports that attempt to hack into peoples systesm from various parts of the world China in particular. I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables unless they are registered with the host and or providers as to their legitimate use

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Henry Linneweh wrote: Here are a list of very active ports that attempt to hack into peoples systesm from various parts of the world China in particular. Thank you. I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables unless they are registered with the host and or providers as to

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Henry Linneweh wrote: Here are a list of very active ports that attempt to hack into peoples systesm from various parts of the world China in particular. I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables unless they are registered with the host and or providers as to their

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables your wish is the internet's comman. ports are no longer in routing tables.

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Randy Bush wrote: I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables your wish is the internet's comman. ports are no longer in routing tables. Thank you -- Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio http://members.cox.net/larrysheldon/

Re: AV/FW Adoption Studies

2004-06-11 Thread Niels Bakker
[unattributed wrote:] Remember - every single 0-day that surfaces was something the black hats found first. * [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Fri 11 Jun 2004, 12:29 CEST]: And 0-day exploits are only the ones that the blackhats are willing to talk about. If they keep quiet about an exploit and only use

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Andy Dills
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Henry Linneweh wrote: Here are a list of very active ports that attempt to hack into peoples systesm from various parts of the world China in particular. I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables unless they are registered with the host and or

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Adi Linden
This thread is quite amusing and interesting at the same time. If I read the original post right, Mr. Mike Bierstock was informed that he was generating an unusual amount of traffic, traffic he would have to pay for. He got the bill and had to deal with the consequences. What is wrong with

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Scott Stursa
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Andy Dills wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Henry Linneweh wrote: Here are a list of very active ports that attempt to hack into peoples systesm from various parts of the world China in particular. I think unassigned ports should be dropped from routing tables

was: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Matthew McGehrin
Coupled with a Flux Capacitor for the ultimate in message delivery :) - Original Message - From: Scott Stursa [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Even you can be hacked Ah. A tunneling implementation. You'll need a cold fusion

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Walter
Now you are just getting silly, we know Flux Capacitors don't work on earth. Mike Walter -Original Message- From: Matthew McGehrin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:00 PM To: nanog Subject: was: Even you can be hacked Coupled with a Flux Capacitor for the

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread John Neiberger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/11/04 3:02:42 PM Now you are just getting silly, we know Flux Capacitors don't work on earth. Sure they do, at least the ones made since 1985. I believe I remember a DeLorean that used one. John --

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Fisher, Shawn
Hmm, so your on earth? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike Walter Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:03 PM To: nanog Subject: RE: Even you can be hacked Now you are just getting silly, we know Flux Capacitors don't work on earth. Mike Walter

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
the bottom line o if you want the internet to continue to innovate, then the end-to-end model is critical. it means that it takes only X colluding end-poits to deploy an new application which might be the next killer ap which drives your business. remember, email was not part

[OT] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Dickson, Brian
Title: [OT] common list sense (Re: Even you can be hacked) Paul Jamka [PJ] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr. [LFSJ] wrote: LFSJ I'm on the list folks, if you send it to the list I'll get it. I don't need a copy to the list and Cc:'s until the end of time. PJ Then set a

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread James Reid
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Sean Donelan wrote: :Did your computer have a power switch? Did you turn it off? Or did you :continue to let it run up the bill? Yes, even the complete computer :novice can stop a computer room. Turn off your computer. If you don't :know how to fix it, take it to a

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Mike Walter
That is true, but only if they are placed in DeLorean because they filled with drugs. Mike -Original Message- From: John Neiberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 11, 2004 5:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Even you can be hacked [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6/11/04

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Owen DeLong
We'll agree to disagree on the majority of your post and your interpretation of the facts... However, this tidbit attracted my attention... Maybe the only bandwidth simile that could be appropriate would be to a car in the 1950's, one which was unsafe at any speed. Yes... I have long felt that

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Scott McGrath
But wouldn't an interocitor with electron sorter option give you much more reliable packet delivery... Scott C. McGrath On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Fisher, Shawn wrote: Hmm, so your on earth? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread David Schwartz
Of course, except in this case, the phone company can't easily tell the legitimate calls from the illegitimate ones and block only the illegitimate ones. Every analogy will break down, so don't expect to be able to convince people with analogies that seem so obviously right to

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread David Schwartz
This thread is quite amusing and interesting at the same time. If I read the original post right, Mr. Mike Bierstock was informed that he was generating an unusual amount of traffic, traffic he would have to pay for. He got the bill and had to deal with the consequences. What is wrong with

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Henry, from the email address I'm assuming youre not trolling and are therefore missing a few facts, IP!=IPX, that is.. ports arent in the routing table It is not the ports below that cause the security issues, it is the applications which are using them, you need to either fix the apps or

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Richard Welty
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:51:00 -0400 (EDT) Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't an interocitor with electron sorter option give you much more reliable packet delivery... that works fine until someone reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. richard -- Richard Welty

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Jeff Shultz
** Reply to message from Richard Welty [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Fri, 11 Jun 2004 18:33:00 -0400 (EDT) On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:51:00 -0400 (EDT) Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't an interocitor with electron sorter option give you much more reliable packet delivery... that

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Bush writes: the bottom line o if you want the internet to continue to innovate, then the end-to-end model is critical. What Randy said. (And all the rest of the post that I deleted to save a bit of bandwidth.) --Steve Bellovin,

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Crist Clark
Richard Welty wrote: On Fri, 11 Jun 2004 17:51:00 -0400 (EDT) Scott McGrath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But wouldn't an interocitor with electron sorter option give you much more reliable packet delivery... that works fine until someone reverse the polarity of the neutron flow. And for heaven's

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 11 June 2004 14:18 -0700 Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the bottom line o if you want the internet to continue to innovate, then the end-to-end model is critical. it means that it If there is a lesson here, seems to me it's that those innovative protocols should be designed such

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Henry Linneweh
I can agree with that and Randy pointed out when these idea's were created and writen, security was not part of the overall plan because there were trusted parties on either end of the spectrum. I think that my intent was noble and I am glad I started a controversy, because this is an issue

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
yes, we're gonna hack desperately for a decade to make up for asecure (innocent of, as contrasted with devoid of, security) application protocols and implementations. it'll take half that time for the ivtf and the vendors to realize how deeply complexity is our enemy. and until then we'll hack

New IANA IPv6 Allocations

2004-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is to inform you that the IANA has allocated the following three (3) IPv6 /23 blocks to RIPE NCC, ARIN, and APNIC respectively: 2001:4000::/23RIPE NCC Jun 04 2001:4200::/23ARIN Jun 04 2001:4400::/23

Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote: generated by a worm. The ISP had an obligation to stop this traffic with filters or customer disconnection. They may or may not have complied with their obligation. Either way, it's hard to see why the customer should pay for traffic the ISP did not

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
we americans do not readily accept responsibility for our [in]actions. we sue for being hit by a baseball while attending a game. we sue for spilling hot coffee on ourselves. we sue when we walki into open trenches and manholes. and we self-righteously torture, commit war crimes, and murder,

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Adi Linden
If your child borrows your credit card, and makes lots of unathorized charges, you may not have to pay more than $50; but the bank can go after your son or daughter for the money. Most parents end up paying, even if they didn't authorize their children to use the credit card. So the credit

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Henry Linneweh
Scalable bandwidth is not new and is charged for, what is the issue about that? If the network is compromised and it is on the client end, that is what business insurance is for, so that everyone gets their's (payments, otherwise other types of arrangements need to be made, according to the

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Jonathan Nichols
attending a game. we sue for spilling hot coffee on ourselves. http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm Interesting reading on that whole woman sues for spilling hot coffee on herself story. Sometimes there's a LOT more to the tale. :)

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread David Schwartz
This will be my last post on this issue. In this case: 1) Almost certainly the traffic was due to a worm. 2) Almost certainly the ISP knew (or strongly suspected) the traffic was due to a worm. 3) Quite likely, the ISP never carried most of the traffic

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i am no fan of macdonalds, and a good case is made for their negligence, perhaps you should follow the advice at the bottom of that web page The most important message this case has for you, the consumer, is to be aware of the potential danger

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be hacked)

2004-06-11 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Randy Bush wrote: http://lawandhelp.com/q298-2.htm while i am no fan of macdonalds, and a good case is made for their negligence, perhaps you should follow the advice at the bottom of that web page The most important message this case has for you, the consumer, is to be aware of the

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote: So why does everyone think the ISP is almost certainly entitled to be paid? Is it because they're ISPs? Is it because it's easy to blame someone else? I notice that Webmaster's license agreement includes this clause: DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY.

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Mark Foster
On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, David Schwartz wrote: This will be my last post on this issue. In this case: 1) Almost certainly the traffic was due to a worm. 2) Almost certainly the ISP knew (or strongly suspected) the traffic was due to a worm. 3) Quite

Re: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer; consult yours before relying on advice from any layperson, including me. Thus spake Owen DeLong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Should the ISP have shut the customer off? Probably. I certainly would have. Are there ISPs that don't? You bet... Some because they are afraid

RE: Even you can be hacked

2004-06-11 Thread David Schwartz
Why does Webmaster put the entire risk on the customer, including warning that the security mechanism has inherent limitations? Shouldn't Webmaster be responsible if their customer suffer a loss whatsover the cause, even if it wasn't due to any negligence on the part of Webmaster?

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-11 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) writes: ... Why do so many people ignore their ISP when told about problems with their computer? My computer can't be infected, I have a firewall. in any other industry, you (the isp) would do a simple risk analysis and start treating the cause rather than

Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can be

2004-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
alas. on the internet, nobody knows you're a dog. http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0405/msg00057.html