Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Łukasz Bromirski
On 2010-01-05 03:17, Tim Eberhard wrote: Kinda funny you state that Roland. I know of at least two very large carriers that uses Netscreens (and soon SRX's) for their DoS/DDoS mitigation. You mean Juniper SRX? The biggest box is a 5800, and it can handle up to 350k new sessions each second, up

Re: qwest outage no notice

2010-01-09 Thread Paul Wall
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mike mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com wrote: We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I called to report it I was told it was a 200+ emergency software upgrade due to a security concern, and that we will get a notice later after the fact.

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Łukasz Bromirski [mailto:luk...@bromirski.net] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:11 AM You mean Juniper SRX? The biggest box is a 5800, and it can handle up to 350k new sessions each second, up to maximum of 10 million (let's skip the fact that it's not

Re: qwest outage no notice

2010-01-09 Thread Mike
Paul Wall wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mike mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com wrote: We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I called to report it I was told it was a 200+ emergency software upgrade due to a security concern, and that we will get a notice later

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 9, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: Firewalls do have their place in DDoS mitigation scenarios, but if used as the ultimate solution you're asking for trouble. In my experience, their role is to fall over and die, without exception. I can't imagine what possible use a stateful

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] Sent: Saturday, January 09, 2010 10:03 AM On Jan 9, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: Firewalls do have their place in DDoS mitigation scenarios, but if used as the ultimate solution you're asking for

Re: qwest outage no notice

2010-01-09 Thread Bob Bradlee
On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 07:00:42 -0800, Mike wrote: Qwest NEVER EVER provides SLA adjustments, no longer how long it's down or what their own role in it being down is. They toss it from department If they honored every SLA adjustment they would not be able to pay the current stockholders a 6.8%

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Lyon
We should circle up one day, I would love to provide you with some new experiences. There is no sense in chalk talking it, too often I also disagree with new ideas until I see them in action. Best regards, Jeff On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: In my

Re: qwest outage no notice

2010-01-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Paul Wall pauldotw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mike mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com wrote: We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I called to report it I was told it was a 200+ emergency software upgrade due to a

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-09 Thread harbor235
I think we are over looking what an enterprise class firewall accomplishes from a security perspective and what a firewalls function is in the overall security posture of a network. First, statefull inspection by itself is not the only security feature of a firewall, it is one security feature of

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each communication that should be covered by the NDA. As much as everyone would like to believe these are wothless, they are not. Applying them globally to your email protects your legal rights. It is also innocous. Don't them it if you

trying to analyze vispa isp outage

2010-01-09 Thread exploit dev
Hi to all, I have try to check BGP traffic behaviors related to recent VISPA ISP DDOS. For this task I have using BGplay and I need feedback about my analysis. If you are interested check http://extraexploit.blogspot.com/2010/01/trying-to-analyze-vispa-isp-outage_08.html Thank you for your

Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread John Levine
Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each communication that should be covered by the NDA. I can believe that such NDAs may exist, but I'm pretty sure I didn't sign one as a condition of subscribing to nanog. In reality, boilerplate confidentiality notices merely document the

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 12:57 AM, Jeffrey Lyon wrote: I would love to provide you with some new experiences. I get new experiences of this type and plenty of new ideas every day, thanks. ; --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 5:51 AM, harbor235 wrote: Other security features in an Enterprise Class firewall; -Inside source based NAT, reinforces secure traffic flow by allowing outside to inside flows based on configured translations and allowed security policies Terrible from an

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread joel jaeggli
Martin Hannigan wrote: Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each communication that should be covered by the NDA. As much as everyone would like to believe these are wothless, they are not. Applying them globally to your email protects your legal rights. It is also

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Roger Marquis
Dobbins, Roland wrote: Firewalls do have their place in DDoS mitigation scenarios, but if used as the ultimate solution you're asking for trouble. In my experience, their role is to fall over and die, without exception. That hasn't been my experience but then I'm not selling anything that

Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
Well, sure. So don't read the notice then. The point is that rather than try to enforce agreements individually, automatically slapping the notices on is not so unreasonable all considered. While it may be annoying, its not baseless. It certaintly isn't useless in discovery. YMMV. Best, -M

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread Martin Hannigan
I never said otherwise. I did say that from a liability standpoint it is reasonable to inject it and everyone who can ignore it should simply ignore it. Best, -M On 1/9/10, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: Martin Hannigan wrote: Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 9:03 AM, Roger Marquis wrote: That hasn't been my experience but then I'm not selling anything that might have a lower ROI than firewalls, in small to mid-sized installations. I loudly evinced this position when I worked for the world's largest firewall vendor, so that

JunOS remote DoS code has been posted to FD

2010-01-09 Thread Brian Keefer
I haven't tested the code myself, but no reason to think it doesn't work. Consider this your exploits are in the wild notice. -- bk

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Roger Marquis
Dobbins, Roland wrote: Firewalls are not designed to mitigate large scale DDoS, unlike Arbors, but they do a damn good job of mitigating small scale attacks of all kinds including DDoS. Not been my experience at all - quite the opposite. Ok, I'll bite. What firewalls are you referring to?

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread James Hess
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com wrote: .. is reasonable to inject it and everyone who can ignore it should simply ignore it. confidentiality notices are non-innocuous for recipients who pay per kilobyte for data service, or who are frustrated by time

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Roger Marquis wrote: Ok, I'll bite. What firewalls are you referring to? Hardware-based commercial firewalls from the major vendors, open-source/DIY, and anything in between. All stateful firewalls ever made, period (as discussed previously in the thread).

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 10:21 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Roger Marquis wrote: Have you noticed how easily Drupal servers go down with corrupt MyISAM tables?  How would S/RTBH and/or flow-spec protect against that? We're talking about DDoS

Re: JunOS remote DoS code has been posted to FD

2010-01-09 Thread andrew.wallace
And here is the direct link for anyone who's interested: http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2010-January/072340.html - Original Message From: Brian Keefer ch...@smtps.net To: NANOG list nanog@nanog.org Sent: Sun, 10 January, 2010 2:59:50 Subject: JunOS remote DoS code

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 10:33 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: separate the portions of the pie... only let the attack break the minimal portion of your deployment. Use the right tool in the right place. An excellent point. A Web front-end server should be that - merely the front-end.

Re: qwest outage no notice

2010-01-09 Thread virendra rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Martin Hannigan wrote: On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Paul Wall pauldotw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Mike mike-na...@tiedyenetworks.com wrote: We just had a qwest outage of about 2 mins at 1:41am pst. When I

Re: more inane confidentiality notices, was he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread John R. Levine
The point is that rather than try to enforce agreements individually, automatically slapping the notices on is not so unreasonable all considered. While it may be annoying, its not baseless. It certaintly isn't useless in discovery. Once again, I would be most interested in any statute or case

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread William Herrin
On Sat, Jan 9, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Martin Hannigan mar...@theicelandguy.com wrote: Some NDA's require that you must state your intent for each communication that should be covered by the NDA.  As much as everyone would like to believe these are wothless, they are not. Applying them globally to

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-09 Thread harbor235
Other security features in an Enterprise Class firewall; -Inside source based NAT, reinforces secure traffic flow by allowing outside to inside flows based on configured translations and allowed security policies Terrible from an availability perspective, troubleshooting perspective,

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Roger Marquis
Dobbins, Roland wrote: See here for a high-profile example: http://files.me.com/roland.dobbins/k54qkv Reads like a sales pitch to me. No apples to apples comparisons, nothing like an ANOVA of PPS, payload sizes, and other vectors across different types of border defenses. Your presentation

RE: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread George Bonser
Firewalls are not designed to mitigate large scale DDoS, Generally speaking, if it didn't being the firewall to its knees, it wasn't a DoS. It was just sort of an annoying attempt at a DoS. I think that more or less the definition of a DoS is one that exploits the resource limitations of

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 1:22 PM, harbor235 wrote: Again, a firewall has it's place just like any other device in the network, defense in depth is a prudent philosophy to reduce the chances of compromise, it does not eliminate it nor does any architecture you can think of, period What a

Re: he.net down/slow?

2010-01-09 Thread goemon
On Sat, 9 Jan 2010, James Hess wrote: Spam filter your inbox on /CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE.*intended recipient.*destroy.*copies/siand be done with it.The individual sender normally has no control over the matter, so their only two choices are: (a) Post with the notice, or (b) Don't post

Re: D/DoS mitigation hardware/software needed.

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 1:27 PM, Roger Marquis wrote: Reads like a sales pitch to me. My employer's products don't compete with firewalls, they *protect* them; if anything, it's in my pecuniary interest to *encourage* firewall deployments, so said firewalls will fall down and need protection,

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-09 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 10, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: One can spout all the buzzwords and catchphrases one wishes, but at the end of the day, it's all dead wrong - and anyone naive enough to fall for it is setting himself up for a world of hurt. mike harbor...@gmail.com, You deserve a