Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread Haesu
> http://noc.ilan.net.il/stats/ILAN-CPU/new-gp-cpu.html > Was it not > known that under certain conditions the router would flatline? What > percautionary measures were put into place in such an event to limit > the damage? scheduler allocate -hc

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:34:15PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Some BGP-speaking routers (not all, by any means, but some subpopulation) > found themselves pegged at 100% CPU on Saturday. Just one example: > >http://noc.ilan.net.il/stats/ILAN-CPU/new-gp-cpu.html I wonder how

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 09:47 AM 28-01-03 -0600, Jack Bates wrote: From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On the other hand, we also know (from private communications and from > other mailing lists.. ahem) that high rate and high src/dst diversity > of scans causes some network devices to fail (devices that cache flows, or >

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread Jack Bates
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On the other hand, we also know (from private communications and from > other mailing lists.. ahem) that high rate and high src/dst diversity > of scans causes some network devices to fail (devices that cache flows, or > devices that suffer from cpu overload under suc

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread cowie
> > So far it's been visible as an apparently accidental byproduct of an > attack > > with other goals. Are you willing to bet your bifocals that the same > > mechanism can't be weaponized and used against the routing infrastructure > > directly in the future? > > > > Yet the question becomes th

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread Jack Bates
From: > > So far it's been visible as an apparently accidental byproduct of an attack > with other goals. Are you willing to bet your bifocals that the same > mechanism can't be weaponized and used against the routing infrastructure > directly in the future? > Yet the question becomes the reaso

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread cowie
> > Wow, for a minute I thought I was looking at one of our old > > plots, except for the fact that the x-axis says January 2003 > > and not September 2001 :) :) > > seeing that the etiology and effects of the two events were quite > different, perhaps eyeglasses which make them look the same ar

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-28 Thread David Howe
at Monday, January 27, 2003 7:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was seen to say: > This is not correct. VPN simply extends security policy to a different > location. A VPN user must make sure that local security policy > prevents other traffic from entering VPN connection. This is nice

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint > > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far) > > What kind of traffic levels are

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread David G. Andersen
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 06:15:33PM -0800, Randy Bush mooed: > > > Wow, for a minute I thought I was looking at one of our old > > plots, except for the fact that the x-axis says January 2003 > > and not September 2001 :) :) > > seeing that the etiology and effects of the two events were quite >

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Randy Bush
> Wow, for a minute I thought I was looking at one of our old > plots, except for the fact that the x-axis says January 2003 > and not September 2001 :) :) seeing that the etiology and effects of the two events were quite different, perhaps eyeglasses which make them look the same are not as usef

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread cowie
> > here's a plot showing the impact on BGP routing tables from seven ISPs > > (plotted using route-views data): > > http://www.research.att.com/~griffin/bgp_monitor/sql_worm.html > > And as an interesting counterpoint to this, this graph shows > the number of BGP routing updates received at

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> > Deny everything. > > Allow outbound port 80 > Bzzt! You just let in an ActiveX exploit. Or Javascript. Or And I have successfully blocked everything other than AcriveX or JavaScript or whatever else. > > Allow mail server to 25 > > Bzzt! You just let in a new Outlook exploit. It is ta

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread David G. Andersen
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 12:17:20AM -0500, Tim Griffin mooed: > > > hc wrote: > > I am on Verizon-GNI via Qwest and Genuity and seeing the same problem as > > well. > > here's a plot showing the impact on BGP routing tables from seven ISPs > (plotted using route-views data): > http://www.resea

Re: [Re: Level3 routing issues?]

2003-01-27 Thread Joshua Smith
Simon Lockhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 04:16:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Again, but why does it talk to the outside world unsupervised? Your > > organization clearly has a border that separates its internal systems from > > external ones. Why not apply

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:00:51 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > It is very easy. > > Deny everything. > Allow outbound port 80 Bzzt! You just let in an ActiveX exploit. Or Javascript. Or > Allow mail server to 25 Bzzt! You just let in a new Outlook exploit. > If you need AIM, allow AIM from w

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> But, we were talking about end-user connected into the inside network using > a VPN. That user needs to have pretty much unfettered access to the > business parts of your internal network. (Okay, mission critical stuff > should be seperately firewalled, but MS makes that hard enough, due to > th

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 04:16:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Again, but why does it talk to the outside world unsupervised? Your > organization clearly has a border that separates its internal systems from > external ones. Why not apply those restrictions on *those* borders? From inside t

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> That's fine for a non-MS view of the world (admittedly, a view I prefer), > but then you've got to allow TCP 138/139 to all the MS servers in your > organisation (why couldn't they seperate auth from file sharing from...). > And then whatever protocols Outlook uses to talk to your > Exchange se

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 04:00:51PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It is very easy. > > Deny everything. > Allow outbound port 80 > Allow mail server to 25 > Allow ident > If you need netmeeting, allow netmeeting server to other servers. > If you need AIM, allow AIM from workstations to oscar.a

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> > > Given that the head of one of our three-letter-agencies managed to get > > > this sort of thing wrong, what makes you think that Joe Middle-Manager > > > who's more concerned about fixing a spreadsheet will get it correct? > > > > Because it is not that difficult. A security policy of a li

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Barney Wolff
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 08:10:15PM +, Simon Lockhart wrote: > > As I suspected, but I keep being told that these problems were in old style > VPN clients, and stuff is much better these days. I remain unconvinced. A good VPN client (I'm familiar with Nortel) will enforce no *simultaneous* ac

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:33:34 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > > This is not correct. VPN simply extends security policy to a different > > > location. A VPN user must make sure that local security policy prevents > > > other traffic from entering VPN connection. > > > > Given that the head of

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> > This is not correct. VPN simply extends security policy to a different > > location. A VPN user must make sure that local security policy prevents > > other traffic from entering VPN connection. > > Given that the head of one of our three-letter-agencies managed to get > this sort of thing wr

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 03:03:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Alex, although technically correct, its not practical. How many end users > > > vpn in from home from say a public ip on their dsl modem leaving > > > themselves open to attack but now also having this connection back to th

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Simon Lockhart
On Mon Jan 27, 2003 at 03:03:09PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Alex, although technically correct, its not practical. How many end users > > vpn in from home from say a public ip on their dsl modem leaving > > themselves open to attack but now also having this connection back to the > > "S

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:50:22 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > This is not correct. VPN simply extends security policy to a different > location. A VPN user must make sure that local security policy prevents > other traffic from entering VPN connection. Given that the head of one of our three-letter

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Scott Granados wrote: > > Alex, although technically correct, its not practical. How many end users > vpn in from home from say a public ip on their dsl modem leaving > themselves open to attack but now also having this connection back to the > "Secure" inside network. Has

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> Alex, although technically correct, its not practical. How many end users > vpn in from home from say a public ip on their dsl modem leaving > themselves open to attack but now also having this connection back to the > "Secure" inside network. Has anyone heard of any confirmed cases of this >

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Granados
Alex, although technically correct, its not practical. How many end users vpn in from home from say a public ip on their dsl modem leaving themselves open to attack but now also having this connection back to the "Secure" inside network. Has anyone heard of any confirmed cases of this yet? On

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread alex
> > Note that in the case of a worm, a VPN could work against you. If you > > have all the right filters in place at your "perimeter" and yet let > > your employees in through a VPN solution of some sort, you could still > > be screwed if one of their home systems gets infected somehow. > > So wh

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Francis
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:47:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > Third point to the correlation above: The vast majority of Windows admins > > are dingbat-morons, self-proclaimed experts. Had then not been > > dingbat-morons, and applied the readily available and widely announced > > patche

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-27 Thread Scott Francis
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:51:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >>> True altho it does appear to affect MS more so than it ought to even >>> considering >>> their market lead. >> >> What evidence do you have here? If I count the number of DDOS attacks >> from insecure Linux boxes that we've se

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Stephen Milton
It is entirely possible that my customer was referring to 2K-SP3. I am glad to hear some positive _tested_ results on SQLSP3 with the new worm. -Steve On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 06:43:56PM -0500, Dave Stewart eloquently stated: > > At 05:10 PM 1/25/2003, you wrote: > > >We have had multiple cust

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Tony Kapela" > > > > > Maybe the underlying theme is that, for whatever reasons (market > preassures, business idiocy?), we find ourselves on a network that's > largely a collection of monoculture hosts -- win32 on x86. > It's been awhile, but both sendmail and cisco routers themselves ha

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Michael Lamoureux" > > Note that in the case of a worm, a VPN could work against you. If you > have all the right filters in place at your "perimeter" and yet let > your employees in through a VPN solution of some sort, you could still > be screwed if one of their home systems gets infect

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Tony Kapela
On 26 Jan 2003, Michael Lamoureux wrote: > > "dave" == Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and > dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't > dave> scary, I don't know what is. It shows that some

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Michael Lamoureux
"dave" == Dave Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: dave> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and dave> saturating networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't dave> scary, I don't know what is. It shows that someone, with the dave> right tools and enough vulnerable ser

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-26 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, K. Scott Bethke wrote: > > Keep in mind that these problems aren't from 'well behaved' hosts, and > > 'well behaved' hosts normally listen to ECN/tcp-window/Red/WRED > > classic DoS attack scenario. :( > I understand the evils, but are we really at the mercy of situation

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Tim Griffin
hc wrote: > I am on Verizon-GNI via Qwest and Genuity and seeing the same problem as > well. here's a plot showing the impact on BGP routing tables from seven ISPs (plotted using route-views data): http://www.research.att.com/~griffin/bgp_monitor/sql_worm.html tim, http://www.research.att.com

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Matthew Kaufman
> I've seen various references to this worm firing off and saturating > networks worldwide within 1 minute... if *that* isn't scary, I don't know > what is. It shows that someone, with the right tools and enough vulnerable > servers can take out a good portion of the Internet in seconds. And

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Stewart
If a customer is infected, then the problem is on their end. The fact that they don't have throughput is their issue, not that of the provider's. Many, many customers don't understand this - if they don't have throughput, it's the provider's problem and the provider has to fix it. One of the

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Dave Stewart
At 05:10 PM 1/25/2003, you wrote: We have had multiple customers who had SP3 on their boxes that were hit. SP3 was _supposed_ to include this patch, there is no verification so far that it did. Since all the providers have been blocking the attack spread from the routers, installing SP3 on box

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 10:02:54PM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > > The market we are in was specifically bred by Microsoft in the 90's when > > they claimed Windows was so eay to use, anyone could admin it. > > They've since changed their tun

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jack Bates
From: "K. Scott Bethke" > > Well not everyone plays fair out there. I imagine this is built into SLA's > too right? "My network will be up as long as everyone is well behaved" > You know that customers won't behave. Prepare for it. > I understand the evils, but are we really at the mercy of sit

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jared Mauch
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:56:06AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > > > Not true, look at c

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Alex Rubenstein
MS SQL SP3, _NOT_ MS Windows 2000 SP3. BIG DIFFERENCE. http://www.microsoft.com/sql/downloads/2000/sp3.asp On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen Milton wrote: > > We have had multiple customers who had SP3 on their boxes that were > hit. SP3 was _supposed_ to include this patch, there is no > verif

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:10:59PM -0800, Stephen Milton wrote: > > We have had multiple customers who had SP3 on their boxes that were > hit. SP3 was _supposed_ to include this patch, there is no > verification so far that it did. > > Since all the providers have been blocking the attack sprea

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Robert A. Hayden" > What about doing some priority-based QoS? If a single IP exceeds X amount > of traffic, prioritize traffic above that threshold as low. It would keep > any one single host from saturating a link if the threshold is low. > > For example, you may say that each IP is li

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Rafi Sadowsky wrote: > > > ## On 2003-01-25 20:04 - Stephen J. Wilcox typed: > > SJW> > SJW> > SJW> Heres my advice to the uninitiated. Run linux, run firewalls, disable what you > SJW> dont need and listen to folks who have real world experience. > SJW> > SJW> Stev

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Rafi Sadowsky
## On 2003-01-25 20:04 - Stephen J. Wilcox typed: SJW> SJW> SJW> Heres my advice to the uninitiated. Run linux, run firewalls, disable what you SJW> dont need and listen to folks who have real world experience. SJW> SJW> Steve SJW> Please don't start a flame war about this but are yo

worm design (Re: Level3 routing issues?)

2003-01-25 Thread E.B. Dreger
MS> Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2003 10:17:01 -0800 (PST) MS> From: Marc Slemko MS> It is interesting to note that one inadvertent advantage of open MS> source (when it requires people to compile from source, and pick MS> and choose options at compile time... popular distributions with MS> precompiled pac

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > Also; everyone who just posted to this list made it abundantly clear that > > > they don't have a firewall in front of at least one MS SQL server on their > > > network. Should you

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen Milton
We have had multiple customers who had SP3 on their boxes that were hit. SP3 was _supposed_ to include this patch, there is no verification so far that it did. Since all the providers have been blocking the attack spread from the routers, installing SP3 on boxes post-attack hasn't really been pu

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Scott Call
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > I've not looked at any great detail into the exact sources but of the few I > looked at earlier I was surprised to find them on ADSL .. these may be corporate > networks this is the bit I dont know but some of them seemed to be residential, > weir

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > I've not looked at any great detail into the exact sources but of the few I > looked at earlier I was surprised to find them on ADSL .. these may be corporate > networks this is the bit I dont know but some of them seemed to be residential, > weir

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Robert A. Hayden
What about doing some priority-based QoS? If a single IP exceeds X amount of traffic, prioritize traffic above that threshold as low. It would keep any one single host from saturating a link if the threshold is low. For example, you may say that each IP is limited to 10mb of prioirty traffic.

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 05:08:22PM +, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > Also; everyone who just posted to this list made it abundantly clear that > > they don't have a firewall in front of at least one MS SQL server on their > > network. Should you really have port 1433/4 open to the world? Would y

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:41PM -0500, C. Jon Larsen wrote: > > > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes > > > :-) > > > A patch was released mid-20

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, K. Scott Bethke wrote: > > BIll, > - Original Message - > From: "Bill Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I'd agree with it. Except the herds of losers who still buy exploding > > crap from Vendor M don't seem to be thinning themselves out quickly > > dude, the Explod

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Neil J. McRae wrote: > > I think you are on the right lines below in suggesting that products and > > services should be supplied safe and not require additional maintenance out of > > the box to make them so (additional changes should make them weaker) > > There is no such

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
> Third point to the correlation above: The vast majority of Windows admins > are dingbat-morons, self-proclaimed experts. Had then not been > dingbat-morons, and applied the readily available and widely announced > patches (as zealously as unix folks patch thier stuff), this'd be all > moot, and

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Grant A. Kirkwood
On Saturday 25 January 2003 10:03 am, Avleen Vig wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:41PM -0500, C. Jon Larsen wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their > > > boxes > > > > > > :-) > > > > > > A pa

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread K. Scott Bethke
On 1/25/03 2:53 PM, "Christopher L. Morrow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Keep in mind that these problems aren't from 'well behaved' hosts, and > 'well behaved' hosts normally listen to ECN/tcp-window/Red/WRED > classic DoS attack scenario. :( > Well not everyone plays fair out there. I i

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
> I think you are on the right lines below in suggesting that products and > services should be supplied safe and not require additional maintenance out of > the box to make them so (additional changes should make them weaker) There is no such thing as safe! You have control over what risks you w

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
> Not sure you can claim something you have for free is liable or with > guarantee Thats total rubbish. Whether you pay for it or not shouldn't matter. You might also want to consider reading the various software agreement licenses that come with various pieces of software both free and non-fr

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Daniel Senie
At 11:56 AM 1/25/2003, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > Not true, look at cars and recalls. Also as I u

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
> > True altho it does appear to affect MS more so than it ought to even considering > > their market lead. > > What evidence do you have here? If I count the number of DDOS attacks > from insecure Linux boxes that we've seen in the last year, I'd say that its > on par. I think you are on the

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Grant A. Kirkwood" > > Can we perhaps skip the post-traumatic blame syndrome this time? I can see > where this is going already... > It's inevitable. Despite the early morning wakeups and people being required to quit watching tv and actually troubleshoot and work on their network, they a

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Gregory Hicks
> From: "Jack Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Avleen Vig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bill Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Mikael Abrahamsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Level3

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Marc Slemko
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > Including the developers of SSHD, HTTPD, NAMED, CVS? > > How about Linus? Wanna call him up? > > I am no windows cheerleader, but to think this is something that happens > only in windows-land is whack -- might as well put your head in the sand. It i

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
> Would it not also be a good idea/practice *not* to ever let a MS SQL > server (or *any* database server) sit on a network that is directly > accessible from the internet ? Having a firewall(s) in front of your > database server regardless of the type is pretty much common sense, right? > >

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:20:41PM -0500, C. Jon Larsen wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: > > [snip] > > > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes > > :-) > > A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3 > > Would it not also

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread K. Scott Bethke
BIll, - Original Message - From: "Bill Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'd agree with it. Except the herds of losers who still buy exploding > crap from Vendor M don't seem to be thinning themselves out quickly dude, the Exploding Cars are so much easier to drive than the ones from Vendo

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Marius Strom
FYI we're not seeing any particular problems with Qwest here in Houston, TX (connected off iah-edge-04). Is anyone (CERT, etc.) starting to collect lists of affected hosts via log submissions so we can get this stuff reported? On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > Oh, and the master ticket nu

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Alex Rubenstein
>From what I have read and researched, it does. On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Jack Bates wrote: > > From: "Avleen Vig" > > > > > > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes > > :-) > > A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3 > > > > > > Has it b

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 08:56:06AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > > > Not true, look at c

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Grant A. Kirkwood
On Saturday 25 January 2003 09:08 am, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > > Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist? > > > > > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > > > > > In any other indus

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Alex Rubenstein
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > How about Linus? Wanna call him up? > > Not sure you can claim something you have for free is liable or with guarantee In today's legal climate, I bet you can :) > > I am no windows cheerleader, but to think this is something that happens > >

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread C. Jon Larsen
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Avleen Vig wrote: [snip] > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes > :-) > A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3 Would it not also be a good idea/practice *not* to ever let a MS SQL server (or *any* database serve

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Blaine Kahle
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 02:57:16AM -0500, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > MS SQL, or SQL Monitor? Are those two separate programs? I don't know; I'm not a windows guy. I just watched over the shoulders of a few other techs as they shut what appeared to be everything-MSSQL down. I just found the blink

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Avleen Vig" > > Let's not blame MS for admins who don't know how to secure their boxes > :-) > A patch was released mid-2002 and was also part of SQL Server SP3 > > Has it been verified that the mid-2002/SP3 patches work? I haven't heard anything difinitive on this yet. Jack Bates Netwo

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > > > Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist? > > > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > computer

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Neil J. McRae
> Dunno, arent they negligent? > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. Not true, look at cars and recalls. Also as I understand it MS issued a fix for this sometime ago - it the users who di

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Alex Rubenstein
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > > Somebody remind me why Microsoft is still allowed to exist? > > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > Steve

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Andy Dills
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > Yet, with Genuity, I don't seem to be having difficulties reaching > anywhere. Are people still being absolutely ravaged by the worm at this > minute? I personally never saw any serious increase of traffic on my > network, I guess I'm enough to have colo c

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Bill Woodcock
> > Dunno, arent they negligent? > > In any other industry a fundemental flaw would be met with lawsuits, in the > > computer world tho people seem to get around for some reason. > > Not true, look at cars and recalls. Also as I understand it MS > issued a fix for this some

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Avleen Vig
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 01:13:30AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint > > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far) > > What kind of

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Bill Woodcock wrote: > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint > > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far) > > What kind of traffic levels are

Re: dos of the week? was RE: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Eric Gauthier
> my transit traffic doubled (luckily it is the low time of the night for > me) from 10-12ish I work at a really large east coast University. Our sensors show the problem starting between 12:30-12:45am this morning... Eric :)

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Andy Dills
Interesting. Qwest is still extremely hosed; I can get routes from them, but packets are not getting anywhere on their network NATIONWIDE, according to the person I just talked to. I asked if this was related to the new worm that popped up, and she didn't know, she only knew that it was affectin

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Eric Whitehill
7;ve doubled my network traffic since 11:30ish PM CST... > > > > If anyone has an idea of whats going on... > > > > AS5006 is where I'm at. > > > > -Eric > > > > On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Andy Dills wrote: > > > >> Date: Sat,

RE: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread fingers
> Not just L3Genuity is getting whacked. ELI is getting whacked. > Somebody needs to be gelded. the worm is not limited to any isp/nsp would advise all and sundry to start filtering

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > > Lots of traffic on udp port 1434 coming in here via TW Telecom and Sprint > > Looks like we may have a winner for DDoS of the year (so far) > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing? I'm working on it for some friends, and I'

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Larry Rosenman
3 01:37:29 -0500 (EST) From: Andy Dills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alex Rubenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: hc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Level3 routing issues? On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > > &g

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Gary Coates
and GBLX. -Original Message- From: Alex Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sat 1/25/2003 1:04 AM To: hc Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Level3 routing issues? I dunno about that. But, I am seeing, in the last couple hours, all kinds of new traffic. like, customers

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Forrest W. Christian
On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing? With a handful of /16 etc > we're not seeing more than 5-10 megabits of traffic according to my > global transit graphs. We had a IIS server in our collocation center start spewing data at 70mb/s towards

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread George William Herbert
Has someone reported the details to CERT yet? Preferably someone who's got logs and such? -george william herbert [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Jack Bates
From: "Mikael Abrahamsson" > > What kind of traffic levels are you seeing? With a handful of /16 etc > we're not seeing more than 5-10 megabits of traffic according to my > global transit graphs. > > People who havent null routed their unused prefixes properly will probably > see a lot of problem

Re: Level3 routing issues?

2003-01-25 Thread Josh Richards
* Josh Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20030124 23:25]: > > Same here. We first saw what looked like a DoS at about > 09:00 PST. We're seeing strange stuff all over the place. Oops, meant to say 09:30 PST. -jr Josh Richards Geek Research, LLC - Digital West Networks, Inc - San Luis Ob

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