Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal forNewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Johnson
snip http://www.nanog.org/meetings/attending/wavingfee/studentreg.php doesn't indicate that they need to be full time, so I guess they just have to be a college or university student. Period. Yes? why only university? wazza matter with the younger set? i have worked with some bitchin'

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal forNewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-05, at 09:40, Brian Johnson wrote: snip http://www.nanog.org/meetings/attending/wavingfee/studentreg.php doesn't indicate that they need to be full time, so I guess they just have to be a college or university student. Period. Yes? why only university? wazza matter with

[Nanog-futures] NewNOG membership policy adopted

2011-01-05 Thread Steve Feldman
Based on the proposal sent last month and discussion on this list, the NewNOG Board has adopted a membership policy. As in the proposal, there are two components: a Bylaws amendment to establish a framework, and a board resolution to set the policy. The full text of both parts are appended

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal forNewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Brian Johnson
I'm so sick of this conversation. Why are we discussing this as if it should have any weight. Find me an organization that has a student membership without any qualifications and I'll show you exponentially more that have one. I also don't like being taken out of context. Please read the thread

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal forNewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-05, at 11:10, Brian Johnson wrote: I also don't like being taken out of context. Please read the thread before posting on a single post. You'll see that I'm against this whole thing. Sure, but I'm not against student discounts (for whatever, membership, attendance). I'm just

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal forNewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Sean Figgins
On 1/5/11 8:07 AM, Joe Abley wrote: Who gets to verify the veracity of student IDs from the UK, or from France, or from Egypt, or from Pakistan? How would they do it? Is it really worth the trouble? Someone please explain to me how accepting students outside of North America as members

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal for NewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Scott Weeks
--- ra...@psg.com wrote: From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com http://www.nanog.org/meetings/attending/wavingfee/studentreg.php doesn't indicate that they need to be full time, so I guess they just have to be a college or university student. Period. Yes? why only university? wazza matter with

Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal for NewNOG's membership structure

2011-01-05 Thread Scott Weeks
Ok, thanks for the clarification. scott --- s...@labrats.us wrote: From: Sean Figgins s...@labrats.us To: nanog-futures@nanog.org Subject: Re: [Nanog-futures] an alternate proposal for NewNOG's membership structure Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 13:12:35 -0700 On 1/5/11 11:21 AM,

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Mohacsi Janos
Dear Jeff, In my opinion the real challenges already in IPv6 networks the following: SPAM and attacking over IPv6; DoS; track back hosts with privacy enhanced addresses. Do you have some methods in your mind to resolve ARP/ND overflow problem? I think limiting mac address per port on

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 5, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: I notice that this document, in its nearly 200 pages, makes only casual mention of ARP/NDP table overflow attacks, which may be among the first real DoS challenges production IPv6 networks, and equipmentvendors, have to resolve. They also

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 5, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: They also only make small mention of DNS- and broadcast-hinted scanning, and none at all of routing-hinted scanning. I meant to include, ' . . . and the strain that this hinted scanning will place on the DNS and routing/switching

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread TR Shaw
On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:07 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:50 PM, Menerick, John jmener...@netsuite.com wrote: Every joke has a bit of truth. For instance, until recently (last 10 years?), O'hare's traffic controllers relied upon vacuum tube technology to perform

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Leen Besselink
On 01/05/2011 10:39 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: The document itself is a good tutorial on IPv6, and it's great that the authors did indeed touch upon these security concerns, but the security aspect as a whole is seemingly deliberately understated, which does a disservice to the lay reader.

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread Robert E. Seastrom
TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com writes: There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and also a directive to all federal agencies to support IPV6 by 2008 (See

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Philip Dorr
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:34 AM, Leen Besselink l...@consolejunkie.net wrote: He did a new presentation at 27c3 in december 2010: http://events.ccc.de/congress/2010/Fahrplan/events/3957.en.html A video and slides should show up on the list soon: http://media.ccc.de/tags/27c3.html (because

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Caleb Tennis
I highly recommend looking at Crashplan Pro. We use it for some of our customers and it works great, and the pricing is very reasonable. On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Richard Zheng wrote: Hi, We are looking at providing backup services for our customers. It should have software running on

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Carpenter
The original poster is looking for software that can be hosted locally, which Crashplan is not as far as I can tell. I am also looking for something that can be hosted locally. The only one we have been able to find is Vembu StoreGrid. Our experience with Vembu has ranged from abysmal to

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Mohacsi Janos moha...@niif.hu wrote:        Do you have some methods in your mind to resolve ARP/ND overflow problem? I think limiting mac address per port on switches both efficient on IPv4 and IPv6. Equivalent of DHCP snooping and Dynamic ARP Inspection should

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: please explain why this is in any way better than operating the same LAN with a subnet similar in size to its existing IPv4 subnets, e.g. a /120. Using /64s is insane because a) it's unnecessarily wasteful (no lectures on how large the space

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Marco Matarazzo
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Randy Carpenter rcar...@network1.netwrote: The original poster is looking for software that can be hosted locally, which Crashplan is not as far as I can tell. I am also looking for something that can be hosted locally. The only one we have been able to find is

RE: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Neil Robst
Asigra? http://www.asigra.com/ Regards, Neil -Original Message- From: Marco Matarazzo [mailto:marm...@gmail.com] Sent: 05 January 2011 12:37 To: Randy Carpenter Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: online backup software vendor On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Randy Carpenter

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Caleb Tennis
Absolutely it can be hosted locally, we run the server software in our data center and our customers are clients who connect to it for backup. In fact, the server software is free to download and install. Code42, the makers, also run their own hosted version, which you may be seeing. Make

RE: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Loiacono
Note that the NIST IPv6 document Kevin pointed to, in the acknowledgements section, includes the following individual who assisted: Trung Nguyen, FAA Joe From: Ryan Finnesey ryan.finne...@harrierinvestments.com To: nanog@nanog.org Date: 01/04/2011 10:25 PM Subject: RE: FAA - ASDI servers

Re: FAA - ASDI servers

2011-01-05 Thread mikea
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 06:36:25AM -0500, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: TR Shaw ts...@oitc.com writes: There is a federal directive that has been in place for a number of years that requires IPV6 support for all new IT contracts/systems and also a directive to all federal agencies to

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 5 jan 2011, at 13:21, Jeff Wheeler wrote: customers may be driven to expect a /64, or even believe it is necessary for proper functioning. RFC 3513 says: For all unicast addresses, except those that start with binary value 000, Interface IDs are required to be 64 bits long and to be

RE: Experiences with Comcast Ethernet

2011-01-05 Thread Dylan Ebner
This is what we worry about as well. Right now, when the complaints start coming in, we can usually trace the problem to a comcast - level3 - qwest issue. Our big concern is we start seeing over subscription on the nodes (we have dealt with this in the past) and our problems start all over

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/5/2011 6:29 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: Using /64s is insane because a) it's unnecessarily wasteful (no lectures on how large the space is, I know, and reject that argument out of hand) and b) it turns the routers/switches into sinkholes. Except someone was kind enough to develop a

IRSCP

2011-01-05 Thread harbor235
I was curious if anyone has heard off or is playing around with Intelligent Route Service Control Point? Looks like there are some trials going on and it has potential to centralize routing descsions as well as a DDOS mitigation tool, thoughts? harbor235 ;}

vmware recover a 4.0 boot with a 4.1 cd

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
borked vmware boot, reset says no opsys found. it's a 4.0 system. can i do recovery (saving vmfs) using 4.1 cd, or must i use 4.0? randy

Re: vmware recover a 4.0 boot with a 4.1 cd

2011-01-05 Thread Phil Regnauld
Randy Bush (randy) writes: borked vmware boot, reset says no opsys found. it's a 4.0 system. can i do recovery (saving vmfs) using 4.1 cd, or must i use 4.0? Yes, it will work for accessing the vmfs, at the very least. Phil

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Jon Lewis
[moved to nanog as it seems a far more appropriate forum than cisco-nsp] On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, Jose Madrid wrote: Anyone here use AltDB? It seems their servers have been down for two days. I have emailed their admin alias but have gotten nothing. Anyone? whois -h whois.altdb.net 199.48.252.0

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Carpenter
Does anyone have any comments on any of these solutions being easily managed for end users? We need something that is easy for the customers to install and configure, and is centrally managed. It would also be very nice if it could be fully branded (the one thing that Vembu does well) thanks,

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: that a lot of smart people agree is a serious design flaw in any IPv6 network where /64 LANs are used It's not a design flaw, it's an implementation flaw. The same one that's in ARP (or maybe RFC 894 wasn't

RE: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Blake Pfankuch
Asigra is a great product, however branding isn’t possible from what I know of the solution. We use Asigra through a partner, and when well managed it is a GREAT solution, however it can easily spin out of control if someone doesn't keep on top of it. Randy if you are looking for a little

Re: online backup software vendor

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew S. Crocker
We use Ahsay online backup server (http://www.ahsay.com/jsp/en/home/index.jsp). I've been very happy with it. - Original Message - From: Richard Zheng rzh...@gmail.com To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:02:23 PM Subject: online backup software vendor Hi, We

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 1/5/11 8:49 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: that a lot of smart people agree is a serious design flaw in any IPv6 network where /64 LANs are used It's not a design flaw, it's an implementation flaw. The same one

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: Anyone here use AltDB? It seems their servers have been down for two days. Can anyone from Level3 say how this will impact customer BGP filters. Will L3 keep working with the last data sync they got from altdb?  I'm guessing

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Craig Pierantozzi
On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: [snip] Can anyone from Level3 say how this will impact customer BGP filters. Will L3 keep working with the last data sync they got from altdb? Yes, Level 3 will continue to use the last data mirrored and archived. New filters are not pushed

Re: reporting physical plant damage to ATT?

2011-01-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 25, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: Have you tried 611 (from an ATT land-line phone)? Many people don't have one. I haven't had one for over 12 years now, nor have any of my employers for the last 8 years. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Jay Coley
On 05/01/2011 17:09, Craig Pierantozzi wrote: On Jan 5, 2011, at 9:26 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: [snip] Can anyone from Level3 say how this will impact customer BGP filters. Will L3 keep working with the last data sync they got from altdb? Yes, Level 3 will continue to use the last data

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: no it isn't, if you've ever had your juniper router become unavailable because the arp policer caused it to start ignoring updates, or seen systems become unavailable due to an arp storm you'd know that you can abuse arp on

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Phil Regnauld
Jeff Wheeler (jsw) writes: IPv4) [...] Not good, but also does not affect any other interfaces on the router. You're assuming that all routing devices have per-interface ARP tables. IPv6) Typically, this breaks not just on that interface, but on the entire router.

RE: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Epstein
So has anyone had any contact from ALTDB as to what's going on? Thanks! --J I just got off the phone with Steve Rubin. He restarted it 45 minutes ago and it's back up. Regards, Randy

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/5/2011 11:19 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: IPv6) I can scan your v6 /64 subnet, and your router will have to send out NDP NS for every host I scan. If it requires incomplete entries in its table, I will use them all up, and NDP learning will be broken. Typically, this breaks not just on that

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Barnes
IPv6) I can scan your v6 /64 subnet, and your router will have to send out NDP NS for every host I scan.  If it requires incomplete entries in its table, I will use them all up, and NDP learning will be broken.  Typically, this breaks not just on that interface, but on the entire router.  

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Abley
On 2011-01-05, at 12:31, Jared Mauch wrote: 2) If you DEPEND on something for your business, it may just be worth it to: a) pay RADB who operates professionally b) use your ISP provided IRR (eg: NTT, level3, savvis, etc) I generally recommend that people use the RIPE database, regardless

Re: reporting physical plant damage to ATT?

2011-01-05 Thread Charles N Wyble
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/05/2011 09:11 AM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 25, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: Have you tried 611 (from an ATT land-line phone)? Many people don't have one. I haven't had one for over 12 years now, nor have any of my employers for

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org wrote: Jeff Wheeler (jsw) writes: Not good, but also does not affect any other interfaces on the router.        You're assuming that all routing devices have per-interface ARP tables. No, Phil, I am assuming that the routing

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Phil Regnauld
Jeff Wheeler (jsw) writes: are badly needed. The largest current routing devices have room for about 100,000 ARP/NDP entries, which can be used up in a fraction of a second with a gigabit of malicious traffic flow. What happens after that is the problem, and we need to tell our vendors what

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread TJ
IPv4) I can scan your v4 subnet, let's say it's a /24, and your router might send 250 ARP requests and may even add 250 incomplete entries to its ARP table. This is not a disaster for that LAN, or any others. No big deal. I can also intentionally send a large amount of traffic to unused

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread sthaug
All the same, beware of the anycast addresses if you want to use a smaller block for point-to-point and for LANs, you break stateless autoconfig and very likely terminally confuse DHCPv6 if your prefix length isn't /64. Breaking stateless autoconfig such that it *cannot* ever work, on my

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:02 PM, TJ trej...@gmail.com wrote: Many would argue that the version of IP is irrelevant, if you are permitting external hosts the ability to scan your internal network in an unrestricted fashion (no stateful filtering or rate limiting) you have already lost, you How

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 1/5/2011 10:02, TJ wrote: Many would argue that the version of IP is irrelevant, if you are permitting external hosts the ability to scan your internal network in an unrestricted fashion (no stateful filtering or rate limiting) you have already lost, you just might not know it yet.

Re: sudden low spam levels?

2011-01-05 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 3, 2011, at 1:04 55PM, Ken Chase wrote: I have two independent mailservers, and two other customers that run their own servers, all largely unrelated infrastructures and target domains, suddenly experiencing low levels of spam. Total emails/day dropping from some 175,000-250,000ish

Re: 2010 IPv4 (and IPv6) Address Use Report

2011-01-05 Thread Leo Vegoda
On 4 Jan 2011, at 3:29, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: [...] Note that I slightly changed the way addresses are counted: previously, all the legacy blocks that didn't have an RIR listed were assumed to be used 100%. But with the return of most of the Interop block this is no longer the case:

Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread Brandon Galbraith
Is anyone using Clearwire/Clear's wireless broadband offering for stationary branch offices/remote equipment monitoring? Looking for results/experiences off-list. We're looking at it for industrial telemetry, and have spoken to people using ATT and VZW who are doing the same, but we wanted to look

Re: AltDB?

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
1) If ARIN doesn't provide the level of authentication you desire, as an ARIN member you should send a note to ppml each day until it's available this is not address policy. this is ops. surely one does not have to dirty one's self with the ppml list to get an ops fix done in arin. it is

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:02 AM, TJ wrote: if you are permitting external hosts the ability to scan your internal network in an unrestricted fashion DCN aside, how precisely does one define 'internal network' in, say, the context of the production network of a broadband access SP, or

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 1:14 AM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: A stateful firewall on every router interface has been suggested already on this thread. It is unrealistic. It isn't just unrealistic, it's highly undesirable, since it represents an huge DoS state vector.

Re: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread tico
Is anyone using Clearwire/Clear's wireless broadband offering for stationary branch offices/remote equipment monitoring? Looking for results/experiences off-list. Curious as to reliability, link performance, and support quality. Me too! I'd love to hear from anyone that's used it

Announcing the Community FlowSpec trial

2011-01-05 Thread John Kristoff
Friends and colleagues, At NANOG 48 I talked about a community flow-spec service we were looking at trying to make work. This is the idea of using IETF RFC 5575 to pass around flow-based rules, in this case, primarily for dropping unwanted packets. This technology is not as widely deployed as

Re: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, tico wrote: Is anyone using Clearwire/Clear's wireless broadband offering for Me too! I'd love to hear from anyone that's used it extensively. I haven't in a few years (I worked for someone who thought of themselves as a clearwire competitor), but we replaced a bunch of

RE: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Balasko
My coworker has a total of 6 hours into calling each and every Clear number that is publically facing and has yet to reach a person that even understands the question. We have boiled it down to the Clear business model is designed merely to sell you the generic modem and have a nice day. There

RE: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
There appears to be zero interest in their business model to accommodate the enterprise. In my own personal experience, there appears to be zero interest in their business model to accommodate the CUSTOMER. They go on and on about how their frequency-space gives them a competitive

Re: Clearwire/Clear for branch office connectivity?

2011-01-05 Thread Mike Sawicki
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 04:15:43PM -0600, Brandon Galbraith wrote: Is anyone using Clearwire/Clear's wireless broadband offering for stationary branch offices/remote equipment monitoring? Looking for results/experiences off-list. We're looking at it for industrial telemetry, and have spoken to

Re: Announcing the Community FlowSpec trial

2011-01-05 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:46:36PM -0600, John Kristoff wrote: Friends and colleagues, At NANOG 48 I talked about a community flow-spec service we were looking at trying to make work. This is the idea of using IETF RFC 5575 to pass around flow-based rules, in this case, primarily for

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
This is a much smaller issue with IPv4 ARP, because routers generally have very generous hardware ARP tables in comparison to the typical size of an IPv4 subnet. no it isn't, if you've ever had your juniper router become unavailable because the arp policer caused it to start ignoring

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Joe Greco wrote: The switch from IPv4 to IPv6 itself is such a change; it renders random trolling through IP space much less productive. And renders hinted trolling far more productive/necessary, invariably leading to increased strain on

Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread ML
I've got a customer that is looking to multihome with upstreams in two POPs. Currently they multihome in one POP and utilize a single edge router for some one to one NAT and some PAT for their users. Before they turn up the BGP peer in the new POP I've advised them to abolish NAT once and

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote: At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their configs. They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they should be using DNS names. Time to bite the bullet and get this fixed prior to

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: This is a much smaller issue with IPv4 ARP, because routers generally have very generous hardware ARP tables in comparison to the typical size of an IPv4 subnet. no it isn't, if you've ever had your juniper router become

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Michael Smith
The devil's in the details (obviously), and someone that reads into the scenario better than me might have a more direct suggestion, but... I'd start by moving the NAT at least one hop into the AS so that routing symmetry can be enforced there. This allows for multi-homing (asymmetric routing at

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Matt Hite
You didn't mention, but are you introducing a second border router? Is the new upstream circuit from a new provider, or is it a second, redundant circuit to the same provider in a different POP? Does your customer have their own portable address space, or are they using provider address space?

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
The switch from IPv4 to IPv6 itself is such a change; it renders random t= rolling through IP space much less productive. And renders hinted trolling far more productive/necessary, invariably leadi= ng to increased strain on already-brittle/-overloaded DNS, whois, route ser= vers, et. al.,

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Packing everything densely is an obvious problem with IPv4; we learned early on that having a 48-bit (32 address, 16 port) space to scan made port-scanning easy, attractive, productive, and commonplace. I don't believe that host-/port-scanning

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: This is a much smaller issue with IPv4 ARP, because routers generally have very generous hardware ARP tables in comparison to the typical size of an IPv4 subnet. no it isn't, if you've ever had your juniper router

RE: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread George Bonser
From: Dobbins, Roland Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:19 PM To: Nanog Operators' Group Subject: Re: NIST IPv6 document On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Joe Greco wrote: I don't believe that host-/port-scanning is as serious a problem as you seem to think it is, nor do I think that

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 10:42 AM, George Bonser wrote: It will be a problem if people learn they can DoS routers by doing it by maxing out the neighbor table. I understand this - that's a completely separate issue from the supposed benefits of sparse addressing for endpoint host security. I

Re: reporting physical plant damage to ATT?

2011-01-05 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jo Rhett jrh...@netconsonance.com On Nov 25, 2010, at 2:11 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: Have you tried 611 (from an ATT land-line phone)? Many people don't have one. I haven't had one for over 12 years now, nor have any of my employers for the last 8 years.

ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
Sorry for the subject change, it seems now we're talking about something perhaps more relevant to me (security and routing stuff) On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: i have a rumor that arin is delaying and possibly not doing rpki that seems to have been announced on

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote: At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which have these IPs deeply embedded in their configs. They shouldn't be using IP addresses in configs, they

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
We need at least these things to exist: o an accurate mapping of resource (netblock/asn) to authorized-entity (RIR/NIR/LIR/Customer/...) o a system to manage this data for our routing equipment see all the sidr documents in last call to go from i-ds to rfcs. oh, you co-chair sidr :)

RE: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread George Bonser
I've understood the problem for years, thanks, and have commented on it in other portions of this thread, as well as in may earlier threads around this general set of issues - and it's completely orthogonal to this particular discussion. I suppose what confused me was this: I don't

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Jeff Kell
On 1/5/2011 10:18 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: This whole focus on sparse addressing is just another way to tout security-by-obscurity. We already know that security-by-obscurity is a fundamentally-flawed concept, so it doesn't make sense to try and keep rationalizing it in various

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:16 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: We need at least these things to exist:   o an accurate mapping of resource (netblock/asn) to     authorized-entity (RIR/NIR/LIR/Customer/...)   o a system to manage this data for our routing equipment see all the sidr

Re: Announcing the Community FlowSpec trial

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Richard A Steenbergen r...@e-gerbil.net wrote: On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 05:46:36PM -0600, John Kristoff wrote: Friends and colleagues, At NANOG 48 I talked about a community flow-spec service we were looking at trying to make work.  This is the idea of using

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:16 AM, George Bonser wrote: I thought the entire notion of actually getting to a host was orthogonal to the discussion as that wasn't the point. It wasn't about exploitation of anything on the host, the discussion was about the act of scanning a network itself being

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote: actually, the formal rpki-based origin-validation stuff is measured to take *less* cpu, a lot less, than ACLs On the platforms which really matter in terms of rPKI, ACLs are handled in hardware, so this is pretty much a wash. Concur on all

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Mark Andrews
In message aanlktimkgpyky_aka5px4-ca-3=oufhgbnenrkpmp...@mail.gmail.com, Came ron Byrne writes: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote: At least not without some painful rebuilds of criticals systems which ha= ve

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:30 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote: actually, the formal rpki-based origin-validation stuff is measured to take *less* cpu, a lot less, than ACLs On the platforms which really matter in terms of rPKI,

Next generation TV over the Internet: This revolution will be televised

2011-01-05 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Lenny Giuliano of Juniper (IETF MBONED co-chair) has written an article in Network World that I thought NANOGers might be interested in : http://www.networkworld.com/news/tech/2011/010511-tech-update-next-gen-tv.html He clearly describes the need for multicast in the upcoming video-centric

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:31 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message aanlktimkgpyky_aka5px4-ca-3=oufhgbnenrkpmp...@mail.gmail.com, Came ron Byrne writes: On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Jan 6, 2011, at 9:38 AM, ML wrote: At least

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread John Levine
Still, the idea that nobody will scan a /64 reminds me of the days when 640K ought to be enough for anybody, ... We really need to wrap our heads around the orders of magnitude involved here. If you could scan an address every nanosecond, which I think is a reasonable upper bound what with the

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 1/5/2011 8:47 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: And, you will notice that the list at http://groups.google.com/group/ipv4literals shows only a few web site, because there are only a few that have this design flaws. And the list looks like it does because the list only shows a *few* web sites. Other

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
actually, the formal rpki-based origin-validation stuff is measured to take *less* cpu, a lot less, than ACLs On the platforms which really matter in terms of rPKI, ACLs are handled in hardware, so this is pretty much a wash. really? it was measured on a GSR. full check on a prefix, 10usec.

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Joe Greco
It has nothing to do with security by obscurity. You may wish to re-read what Joe was saying - he was positing sparse addres= sing as a positive good because it will supposedly make it more difficult f= or attackers to locate endpoints in the first place, i.e., security through=

Re: ARIN and the RPKI (was Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-05 Thread Randy Bush
I think ACLs here means prefix-lists ... or I hope that's what Randy meant? sorry. yes, irr based prefix lists. and, sad to say, data which have sucked for 15+ years. i was the poster child for the irr, and it just never took off. [ irr data are pretty bad except for some islands where

Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network

2011-01-05 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Jan 5, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: Which is one of the reasons why DS-lite is a better solution for providing legacy access to the IPv4 Internet than NAT64/DNS64. DS-lite only breaks what NAT44 breaks. DS-lite doesn't break new things. Or just run a dual-stack network,

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Owen DeLong
Is there any reason we really need to care what size other people use for their Point to Point links? Personally, I think /64 works just fine. I won't criticize anyone for using it. It's what I choose to use. However, if someone else wants to keep track of /112s, /120s, /124s, /126s, or even

Re: NIST IPv6 document

2011-01-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:04 AM, Jack Bates wrote: On 1/5/2011 6:29 AM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: Using /64s is insane because a) it's unnecessarily wasteful (no lectures on how large the space is, I know, and reject that argument out of hand) and b) it turns the routers/switches into sinkholes.

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