RE: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread david.binet
Hello, Thank you for launching such useful discussions for operators. IPv6 introduction in mobile networks is certainly one major issue we have to consider for services and business development. As you stated, pressure on public and private IPv4 addresses is more and more important and we

Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread Durand, Alain
I have looked at DS-lite very carefully. First, DS-Lite fits better for cable operators since they have CPE and can have a DS-lite function in the CPE that they control, and that in turn allows them to provide IPv4, IPv6, and dual-stack to the end-host that they do not control. DS-Lite

Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread Durand, Alain
[resending with more readable, apologies for the duplicate] DS-lite can work both for fixed and wireless scenario, where you have a laptop/pda/smarphone/tablet that is only configured by the access network with IPv6 but want to access IPv4 content FROM IPv4 applications. This is the main

Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Bruce Williams
Part of the discussion of recent attacks by targeted email to individuals crafted to deceive that particular individual based on intelligence gathered for this use by governments. The alleged attacks from China are troubling on many fronts. On Thursday, security firm McAfee released a report

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/15/10 4:07 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: As if the old threat models weren't bad enough... The old threat models were simply not up to date. Gadi. Bruce -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
The APT is the new game. Old rules, new game. -- Marcus H. Sachs Verizon +1 202 515 2463 Sent from my Verizon BlackBerry Storm http://www.verizonwireless.com/storm - Original Message - From: Gadi Evron g...@linuxbox.org To: nanog@nanog.org nanog@nanog.org Sent:

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
telmn...@757.org wrote: Did SORBS really cause you that much pain? Yes. We purchased colo space for some systems that didn't need high class of service (mostly development systems.) The IP space in a former lifetime was a dialup pool for analog modems. We of course changed the reverse DNS

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/15/10 4:32 PM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: The APT is the new game. Old rules, new game. I don't see why it's new just because suddenly people know what's going on around them. A bit like with botnets before 2004. Gadi. -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Blog:

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Where are these quotes coming from ? Marshall On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:07 AM, Bruce Williams wrote: Part of the discussion of recent attacks by targeted email to individuals crafted to deceive that particular individual based on intelligence gathered for this use by governments. The alleged

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
The botnet concept is one of the old rules. The way the APT works and what it is used for is the new game. -- Marcus H. Sachs Verizon +1 202 515 2463 Sent from my Verizon BlackBerry Storm http://www.verizonwireless.com/storm - Original Message - From: Gadi

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 15, 2010, at 9:21 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: On 1/15/10 4:07 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: As if the old threat models weren't bad enough... The old threat models were simply not up to date. Precisely correct. This has been going on for quite some time; some people simply weren't paying

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Bruce Williams wrote: The alleged attacks from China are troubling on many fronts. On Thursday, security firm McAfee released a report saying the program used to target U.S. firms involved a so-called zero day vulnerability -- one that was to this point unknown to the

Katrina response, private and public

2010-01-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Folks, After the Katrina landfall a diverse group of wireless people started organizing a relief effort, culminating in work around Waveland. There was also a group from the NPGS in Monterey, who worked on the Boxing Day Tsunami aftermath. Does anyone have a similar contact set? Eric

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Jared Mauch
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: Does anyone really believe that the use of targeted 0-day exploits to gain unauthorized access to information hasn't been at least considered if not used by spies working for other [than China] countries? I think only those not paying

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Ronald Cotoni
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: telmn...@757.org wrote: Did SORBS really cause you that much pain? Yes. We purchased colo space for some systems that didn't need high class of service (mostly development systems.) The IP space in a former lifetime

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: Does anyone really believe that the use of targeted 0-day exploits to gain unauthorized access to information hasn't been at least considered if not used by spies working for other [than

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Marcus Reid
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 10:20:33AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Where are these quotes coming from ? That particular one: http://redtape.msnbc.com/2010/01/gregory-fayer-opened-an-e-mail-on-monday-night-that-looked-like-it-was-from-a-fellow-lawyer-at-gipson-hoffman-pancione-inst.html

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: Anyone got some pointers on how to get off SORBS' Dynamic IP lists? We've followed their RFC proposed static reverse DNS assignment naming and all elements of their FAQ. We are not spammers. The /24 in question isnt listed on any RBLs except SORBS DUL. We've submitted

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Jorge Amodio
We now have (and have had for a few years) what appears to be nation-state hacking.  The differences are in targets and resources available to the attacker. Agreed, and given that is more easy to aggregate bits of information from different sources to put together the puzzle it makes more

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ronald Cotoni wrote: At the same time, I never hear this about spamhaus or outblaze. Go figure :( Maybe your system is too confusing and you might want to take a survey and revamp it to something a bit more functional. I have never heard it about Outblaze, but I have heard at least we

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/15/10 5:52 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:43 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:37 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: Does anyone really believe that the use of targeted 0-day exploits to gain unauthorized access to information hasn't been at least considered if not

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM, Michelle Sullivan matt...@sorbs.net wrote: I'm now marking this request as 'answered' as I think there's nothing more for me to do. If you feel otherwise, please reply to this message to re-open your ticket. In particular, if you change your rDNS information.

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Ken Chase
Fair enough, but it wasnt just me. I have the customer who submitted his own tickets as well, as well as NAC.net who has admins (an email admin, actually), who seems to know his way around RBLs and the current state/reputation/happenings in the spam/RBL/mail world. Customer has posted these

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/15/10 5:23 PM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: The botnet concept is one of the old rules. The way the APT works and what it is used for is the new game. Perhaps for talking about, but it is far from new. Come on Marc. Gadi. -- Gadi Evron, g...@linuxbox.org. Blog:

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Hamilton
On 15/01/2010 16:14, William Herrin wrote: Is it bad English? Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. It's perfectly clear. Can anyone else give better wording that might result in less of an issue? Please reply to this message to reopen your ticket and escalate your case to a live human

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:06:18PM +0100, Michelle Sullivan wrote: The common a reoccurring issue is the response by the robot has given the next logical step to progress any delisting request (as has been stated here recently, in another thread).. and the requester has

Re: Katrina response, private and public

2010-01-15 Thread Steven G. Huter
After the Katrina landfall a diverse group of wireless people started organizing a relief effort, culminating in work around Waveland. There was also a group from the NPGS in Monterey, who worked on the Boxing Day Tsunami aftermath. Does anyone have a similar contact set? hello eric i

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread William Herrin
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 11:26 AM, William Hamilton b...@edisys.co.uk wrote: Is it bad English?  Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. Try as I might I really can't see what is not clear here... It isn't clear that there's a way to reach a human being at sorbs other than complaining

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread paul
Michelle, Thanks for your email. Please specifically look at ticket 260695. I created the ticket on January 5th at about 1:30EST. Immediately I got my response from the robot. I replied a few minutes later with: 67.196.137.188/32 TTL is right. PTR is right. From your email, it is my

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Ken Chase wrote: Fair enough, but it wasnt just me. I have the customer who submitted his own tickets as well, as well as NAC.net who has admins (an email admin, actually), who seems to know his way around RBLs and the current state/reputation/happenings in the spam/RBL/mail world. Customer

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 1/15/2010 10:26 AM, William Hamilton wrote: On 15/01/2010 16:14, William Herrin wrote: Is it bad English? Is it not clear? No, it is not clear. It's perfectly clear. Can anyone else give better wording that might result in less of an issue? Please reply to this message to reopen your

Re: Katrina response, private and public

2010-01-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: After the Katrina landfall a diverse group of wireless people started organizing a relief effort... There are quite a lot of us working on it, is there something specific you're volunteering to do?

News about the .HT domain

2010-01-15 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
I have no information about the state of the Internet links in Haiti (everything seems down) but, for the .HT top-level domain, here are a few news. .HT has six name servers, four outside of the country. They were not affected so .HT never had a problem resolving. Main DNS lesson: always put name

Bad Support Bots (was: SORBS on autopilot?)

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Thomas
William Hamilton wrote: Please reply to this message to reopen your ticket and escalate your case to a live human being. And now SORBS: If you feel otherwise, please reply to this message to re-open your ticket. Try as I might I really can't see what is not clear here... The difference is

Re: Bad Support Bots

2010-01-15 Thread William Hamilton
On 15/01/2010 16:57, Michael Thomas wrote: The difference is that nobody wants to talk to a robot when they're the victim of a false positive which is causing business impacting interruption. A robot is not empowered to go beyond its instructions, and if it's programmed either wrong or with

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Leo Bicknell wrote: So, let me see if I got this right: 1) Network reports 1.2.3.0/24 has no dynamic IP addresses in it. Networks don't report anything, people do, and in the majority of cases not the network owner (where network owner = person listed in the RIR as the POC) 2) SORBS

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread paul
Michelle, -- Paul In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. Shunryu Suzuki On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Michelle Sullivan wrote: That is my view, however most (if not all) of the tickets were for the /22 not the /32 which is why it was rejected.

Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 5:37 AM, Durand, Alain alain_dur...@cable.comcast.com wrote: [resending with more readable, apologies for the duplicate] DS-lite can work both for fixed and wireless scenario, where you have a laptop/pda/smarphone/tablet that is only configured by the access network

Re: Bad Support Bots

2010-01-15 Thread Michael Thomas
William Hamilton wrote: On 15/01/2010 16:57, Michael Thomas wrote: The difference is that nobody wants to talk to a robot when they're the victim of a false positive which is causing business impacting interruption. A robot is not empowered to go beyond its instructions, and if it's programmed

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Jed Smith
This will be my only reply to the conversation now that Michelle has poked in and taken control of the thread. I had a beef with SORBS a while back on behalf of my day job, and it cost me quite a bit -- in frustration, in doing a few things publicly that I regret, and ultimately in spending a

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Jon Lewis
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Michelle Sullivan wrote: Well 3 people have ignored the last 2 sentences... so please tell me what is unclear in them? The only correct response was in 260573 when someone The robot response, like much of the SORBS web site is rather longwinded, and I suspect many

Weekly Routing Table Report

2010-01-15 Thread Routing Analysis Role Account
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 bgp-st...@lists.apnic.net For historical data, please see http://thyme.apnic.net. If you have any comments please contact Philip Smith

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jan 15, 2010, at 12:08 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: 2) SORBS robot reponds with you must change your rDNS. ... or respond to indicate why you think the robot is wrong... This does not work. Our provider has been told that unless the in-addr was changed to include the word static, the

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Logan Vig
On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Michelle Sullivan wrote: For fast approval: Log ticket - robot checks rDNS for all networks listed in ticket - robot confirms all space is static and submits the ticket to the removals queue where it is manually checked by a human and processed. For manual approval:

Re: excessive automation

2010-01-15 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 05:01:54PM +, William Hamilton wrote: I agree it's perhaps not clear how to get hold of a human, but you can't really argue that it's not clear how to progress the issue in general as the message quite clearly tells you to respond if you wish for it to be

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:26:49PM -0500, Jed Smith wrote: Let me reiterate for the benefit of Ricky Beam, Ken Chase, Leo Bicknell, Paul, and anybody else who is tempted to debate Michelle in this thread: you are 100% wasting your time. Good advice, for sure.

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: 1. Unlike GhostNet, which showed an interesting attack but jumped to conclusions without evidence that it was China behind them -- based on Ethos alone I'd like to think that when Google says China did it, they know. Although being a

Re: SORBS on autopilot?

2010-01-15 Thread Michelle Sullivan
Logan Vig wrote: Here are some tickets to review: 205929 206524 207964 208986 and for the /24's which finally resulted in the /18 being delisted: 208996-209062 Well from the initial look you kept submitting new tickets and the SORBS staff kept merging them into the latest ticket as

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/15/10 10:15 PM, Fred Baker wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: 1. Unlike GhostNet, which showed an interesting attack but jumped to conclusions without evidence that it was China behind them -- based on Ethos alone I'd like to think that when Google says China did it,

Moderated Post - SORBS...

2010-01-15 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello Everyone: The thread Sorbs on autopilot? has been moderated. Kind Regards, Mike (on behalf of the NANOG CC) -- Michael K. Smith - CISSP, GSEC, GISP Chief Technical Officer - Adhost Internet LLC mksm...@adhost.com w: +1 (206) 404-9500 f: +1 (206) 404-9050 PGP: B49A DDF5 8611 27F3 08B9

um... human generated requests

2010-01-15 Thread bmanning
If I may ... two questions: a) do the humans @ SORBS use the AI/GUI that everyone else uses to query/request changes or do all SORBS internal manipulations use an entirely different AI/GUI? b) is there any method for someone to request their (as opposed to

BGP Update Report

2010-01-15 Thread cidr-report
BGP Update Report Interval: 07-Jan-10 -to- 14-Jan-10 (7 days) Observation Point: BGP Peering with AS131072 TOP 20 Unstable Origin AS Rank ASNUpds % Upds/PfxAS-Name 1 - AS580029398 2.6% 133.0 -- DNIC-ASBLK-05800-06055 - DoD Network Information Center 2

The Cidr Report

2010-01-15 Thread cidr-report
This report has been generated at Fri Jan 15 21:11:26 2010 AEST. The report analyses the BGP Routing Table of AS2.0 router and generates a report on aggregation potential within the table. Check http://www.cidr-report.org for a current version of this report. Recent Table History Date

RE: um... human generated requests

2010-01-15 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
-Original Message- From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:54 PM To: Michelle Sullivan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: um... human generated requests If I may ... two questions: a) do the humans @

Re: um... human generated requests

2010-01-15 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 1/15/10 3:14 PM, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: Slightly confused - it sounds like you're asking if you can list yourself on a blacklist? Is that a self-immolating form of protest, or did I misread? Sounds more like to me an attempt to engineer a situation to cause grief on SORBS end. Maybe

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Gadi Evron
On 1/14/10 12:31 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Jan 13, 2010, at 5:26 PM, mshel...@cox.net wrote: From a single detection of one hostile email you can often expand the picture to many mail recipients. A little open source research identifies the common community the recipients belong to.

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
The Google Spokesperson I heard on the radio yesterday evening said that they had not yet stopped censoring, and declined to give a date when they would. His point was that the clock is ticking and Google can see it. On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. I'm not Chinese, but putting myself in their position... I would be surprised if they were trying to

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Bruce Williams
To my understanding they believe that people that live in China are relevant (which is why they brought it up in the context), but they are very carefully saying that they don't know the exact perpetrators. http://www.ipinc.net/IPv4.GIF Uh, Fred the link is to an image that has nothing to

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: Can you prove you are not Chinese and my computer is not hacked? Fred is your real name, isn't it? You are Fred, aren't you? You. Says so on my business card... inline: IMG_2226_2.jpg

Re: um... human generated requests

2010-01-15 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 02:14:03PM -0800, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: -Original Message- From: bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com [mailto:bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 1:54 PM To: Michelle Sullivan Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: um... human generated

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread tvest
On Jan 16, 2010, at 12:15 AM, Fred Baker wrote: On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: Can you prove you are not Chinese and my computer is not hacked? Fred is your real name, isn't it? You are Fred, aren't you? You. Says so on my business card... IMG_2226_2.jpg 看的也不見! TV

U.S. plans formal complaint over Google attacks

2010-01-15 Thread andrew.wallace
Hey Marcus, you got what you wanted pal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUPTZVlkyU), cyber security ramped up as a national security agenda item. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10436018-265.html Congrats, Andrew

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Randy Bush
i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? randy

Network Provider Recommendation in Edmonton AB

2010-01-15 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
I have a client in Edmonton who's looking for a network drop to their office, something in the 2-10 MB/s range. The location is at 46 Ave. and 99 St. The core requirement is for a bare unfiltered *symmetric* pipe (no ADSL). Traffic volume will be low: 2-4 laptop VPNs plus some light web server

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Adam Fields
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:00:38AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: i am confused here, which is not at all unusual. did the chinese get any data which google does not give to american LEAs in answer to an administrative request, i.e. not even a court order? You mean why didn't they just ask for it

RE: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Warren Bailey
That's the translation the Chinese Government has inserted into the Google Translation service. ;) -Original Message- From: Fred Baker [mailto:f...@cisco.com] Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 4:28 PM To: tv...@eyeconomics.com Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: Anyone see a game changer here? On

Re: Virbl: The First IPv6 enabled dnsbl?

2010-01-15 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
The listing method is if you actually receive virus traffic over v6. Which someone will, sooner or later .. Yes, I agree with listing a slightly larger range - given that /64 seems to be what most anyone gets these days with a free tunnel. I wish you all the very best of fun trying to run dnsbl

Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread Jim Burwell
Sorry for late response here... On 1/14/2010 15:20, Cameron Byrne wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jim Burwell j...@jsbc.cc wrote: On 1/14/2010 11:10, Cameron Byrne wrote: Folks, My question to the community is: assuming a network based IPv6 to IP4 translator is in place

Re: [mailop] Virbl: The First IPv6 enabled dnsbl?

2010-01-15 Thread Tammy A. Wisdom
- Mark Schouten ma...@bit.nl wrote: Hi, FYI: http://virbl.bit.nl/index.php#ipv6 Comments on the listing method are appreciated. Regards, wow bind? thats gonna get slower and slower and slower. I hope you have a TON of ram for that box. for example if we loaded the

Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

2010-01-15 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 15, 2010, at 7:53 PM, Jim Burwell wrote: Sorry for late response here... On 1/14/2010 15:20, Cameron Byrne wrote: On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Jim Burwell j...@jsbc.cc wrote: On 1/14/2010 11:10, Cameron Byrne wrote: Folks, My question to the community is: assuming a