Re: [Nanog-futures] Admission for Committee Members

2011-09-12 Thread Dave Temkin
I'm perfectly OK with not necessarily codifying this in the bylaws; you're right in that the bylaws doesn't spell out admission specifically today. I guess a meta question is - should it? And if it shouldn't, is this just a topic to bring up at the community meeting and then ask the board to

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

2011-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 04:39:52 -, Marcus Reid said: You don't have to have the big fat Mozilla root cert bundle on your machines. Some OSes ship with an empty /etc/ssl, nobody tells you who you trust. And for those OS's (who are they, anyhow) that ship empty bundles, how many CAs do you

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:01:47 EDT, Christopher Morrow said: If I have a thawte cert for valdis.com on host A and one from comodo on host B... which is the right one? You wouldn't have 2 certs for that... I'd have *one* cert for that. And if when you got to the IP address you were trying to

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Hank and everyone, This is a very interesting problem. As it happens, some folks in the IETF have anticipated this one. For those who are interested, Paul Hoffman and Jakob Schlyter have been working within the DANE working group at the IETF to provide for a means to alleviate some of the

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Martin Millnert
Mike, On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:44 PM, Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: It will take a while to get updated browsers rolled out to enough users for it do be practical to start using DNS based self-signed certificated instead of CA-Signed certificates, so why don't any browsers have support

Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Coy Hile
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$) The benefit is to the end user. They see a green address bar  with the company's name

RE: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Leigh Porter
-Original Message- From: Gregory Edigarov [mailto:g...@bestnet.kharkov.ua] I.e. instead of a set of trusted CAs there will be one distributed net of servers, that act as a cert storage? I do not see how that could help... Well, I do not even see how can one trust any certificate

Re: Re: EV SSL Certs

2011-09-12 Thread Cody Rose
On Monday, September 12, 2011 12:08:56 PM Coy Hile wrote: On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 9:08 PM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: what's the real benefit of an EV cert? (to the service owner, not the CA, the CA benefit is pretty clearly $$) The benefit is to the end

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Martin Millnert
Steinar, On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 8:12 PM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: To pop up the stack a bit it's the fact that an organization willing to behave in that fashion was in my list of CA certs in the first place. Yes they're blackballed now, better late than never I suppose. What does that say

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher J. Pilkington
On Sep 11, 2011, at 11:06 PM, Hughes, Scott GRE-MG wrote: Companies that wrap their services with generic domain names (paymybills.com and the like) have no one to blame but themselves when they are targeted by scammers and phishing schemes. Even EV certificates don't help when consumers

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Jason Duerstock
Except that this just shifts the burden of trust on to DNSSEC, which also necessitates a central authority of 'trust'. Unless there's an explicitly more secure way of storing DNSSEC private keys, this just moves the bullseye from CAs to DNSSEC signers. Jason On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:30 AM,

Re: DANE and DNSSEC, was Microsoft deems all DigiNotar

2011-09-12 Thread John Levine
In article CAJNn=DNMrGC42i4Q_Wjvz-i9uV_4w1YnfM8vcX4g_wnXLoT=v...@mail.gmail.com you write: Except that this just shifts the burden of trust on to DNSSEC, which also necessitates a central authority of 'trust'. Unless there's an explicitly more secure way of storing DNSSEC private keys, this

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
But Gregory is right, you cannot really trust anybody completely. Even the larger and more respectable commercial organisations will be unable to resist insert intel organisation here when they ask for dodgy certs so they can intercept something.. No, as soon as you have somebody who is not

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Thomas
Randy Bush wrote: But Gregory is right, you cannot really trust anybody completely. Even the larger and more respectable commercial organisations will be unable to resist insert intel organisation here when they ask for dodgy certs so they can intercept something.. No, as soon as you have

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
with dane, i trust whoever runs dns for citibank to identify the cert for citibank. this seems much more reasonable than other approaches, though i admit to not having dived deeply into them all. If the root DNS keys were compromised in an all DNS rooted world... unhappiness would ensue in

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Randy Bush
as eliot pointed out, to defeat dane as currently written, you would have to compromise dnssec at the same time as you compromised the CA at the same time as you ran the mitm. i.e. it _adds_ dnssec assurance to CA trust. Yes, I saw that. It also drives up complexity too and makes you wonder

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Martin Millnert
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: And how long would it be before browsers allowed self-signed-but-ok'ed-using-dnssec-protected-cert-hashes? As previously mentioned, Chrome = v14 already does. Regards, Martin

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:39 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 22:01:47 EDT, Christopher Morrow said: If I have a thawte cert for valdis.com on host A and one from comodo on host B... which is the right one? You wouldn't have 2 certs for that... I'd have *one* cert for

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Thomas
Martin Millnert wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Michael Thomas m...@mtcc.com wrote: And how long would it be before browsers allowed self-signed-but-ok'ed-using-dnssec-protected-cert-hashes? As previously mentioned, Chrome = v14 already does. The perils of coming in late in a

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Ted Cooper
On 13/09/11 01:12, Randy Bush wrote: as eliot pointed out, to defeat dane as currently written, you would have to compromise dnssec at the same time as you compromised the CA at the same time as you ran the mitm. i.e. it _adds_ dnssec assurance to CA trust. Yes, I saw that. It also drives up

Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Always Learning
Hallo North Americans, I am from Europe. A contributor on the Centos (the largest Red Hat clone) list suggested I reposted my ARIN item on your list. I have a BASH script called .w It contains #! /bin/bash whois $1 host $1 When I type .w 51.51.51.51 I

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. [..] The Internet was created in North America. Many people around the world would appreciate your help in getting ARIN to revert to normal WHOIS displays. ARIN

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. [..] The Internet was created in North America. Many people around the world would appreciate your help in getting ARIN

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 12:32 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: No he's not. He's complaining that sometime in the past few weeks (or is it months now?) ARIN changed the behavior of their whois server. New output for the query 209.208.0.1 is (omitting comments): Internet Connect Company, Inc.

RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Eric Krichbaum
That was on June 25th according to Mark Kosters. They started to answer with both the parent and delegated objects. That hosed the way RWHOIS data was being reported to most things as the client won't know which to send through to the rwhois servers. Still works from an old SCO box but not from

RE: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Jon Lewis
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Eric Krichbaum wrote: That was on June 25th according to Mark Kosters. They started to answer with both the parent and delegated objects. That hosed the way RWHOIS data was being reported to most things as the client won't know which to send through to the rwhois servers.

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53 PM, Jon Lewis jle...@lewis.org wrote: On Mon, 12 Sep 2011, Eric Krichbaum wrote: That was on June 25th according to Mark Kosters.  They started to answer with both the parent and delegated objects.  That hosed the way RWHOIS data was being reported to most

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Always Learning
On Mon, 2011-09-12 at 18:17 +0200, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-09-12 17:40 , Always Learning wrote: Dear person who is to scared to setup a regular email account in his own full name. Beste Fuzzel, Mijn naam is Paul. It was at the bottom of my posting. Sorry I have never ever had a

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Martin Millnert milln...@gmail.com wrote: Something similar, including use of purchased (not only limited to stolen certs), is ongoing already, all of the time. (I had a fellow IRC-chat-friend report from a certain very western-allied middle eastern country

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:22:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy,  releases updates From: Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com I think I need a method that the

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Brandon Ewing
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:53:47PM -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: Prepending the query with a + works for me, in that I get the expected data, but there's additional unexpeced data (full record for the Parent, even if the Parent is just an ARIN /8) in the output that will probably still cause

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates

2011-09-12 Thread Mike Jones
On 12 September 2011 18:39, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Seriously, about the only way I see to ameliorate this kind of problem is for people to use self-signed certificates that are then authenticated by _multiple_ 'trust anchors'.  If the end-user world raises warnings for a

vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Ben Albee
Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company? If so have you ran into any problems with using that instead of a cisco or juniper router?

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote: Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router for their company? The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - you need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched.

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread fredrik danerklint
The days of public-facing software-based routers were over years ago - you need an ASIC-based edge router, else you'll end up getting zorched. wait, what? -- //fredan

RE: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
-Original Message- From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 11:56 AM To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:42 AM, Ben Albee wrote: Does anybody currently use vyatta as a bgp router

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 12/09/2011 20:08, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching. I presume by a fair amount, I presume you mean barely any? At large

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Owen DeLong
On Sep 12, 2011, at 12:35 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 12/09/2011 20:08, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: How do you come to this conclusion? I think a software-based router for enterprise level (let's say on the 1G per provider level) can handle a fair amount of zorching. I presume by a

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Sep 13, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: In your typical enterprise environment, a 1G DoS will zorch the link long before it zorches the router at the enterprise side. This contradicts my experience - I've repeatedly witnessed only a few mb/sec of 64-byte packets making software-based

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

2011-09-12 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases Date: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:46:04AM +0200 Quoting fredrik danerklint (fredan-na...@fredan.se): How about a TXT record with the CN string of the CA cert subject in it? If it exists and there's a conflict,

RE: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Chuck Church
Original Message- From: Dobbins, Roland [mailto:rdobb...@arbor.net] Sent: Monday, September 12, 2011 2:56 PM To: North American Network Operators' Group Subject: Re: vyatta for bgp zorched. --- Zorch. I like that.

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:12:43 -, Dobbins, Roland said: This contradicts my experience - I've repeatedly witnessed only a few mb/sec of 64-byte packets making software-based routers fall over, including just last month. On the flip side, there's a *lot* of sites that have to make

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:34 AM, Chuck Church wrote: Is the concern over a DDOS aimed against the router itself, or just massive flows passing through? Yes, but mainly the former. ; --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net //

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

2011-09-12 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:31:59 +0200, Måns Nilsson said: Since you are from Sweden, and in an IT job, you probably have personal relations to someone who has personal relations to one of the swedes or other nationalities that were present at the key ceremonies for the root. Once you've

Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases

2011-09-12 Thread fredrik danerklint
How about a TXT record with the CN string of the CA cert subject in it? If it exists and there's a conflict, don't trust it. Seems simple enough to implement without too much collateral damage. Needs to be a DNSSEC-validated TXT record, or you've opened yourself up to

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Ben Albee
Thanks for the all the feed-back. We will only have two ipv4 BGP peers (both 5mb/sec links) to the same ISP. We are doing BGP because we plan to add a second ISP at one of our locations in the future. We are not any near a large enterprise, this will be replacing two DSL lines and a T1.

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Everton Marques wrote: Would Cisco ISR G2 3925E classify as software-based router? Yes. Do you expect it to bend itself down under a few Mbps of 64-byte packets? Especially if they're directed at the router itself, at some point, sure - though the ISR2 certainly

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 10:13, Always Learning wrote: Primarily IP ranges to block and/or abuse email addresses. https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Thank you. I will try it. Oh, and there they also like to see your real name and not a junk mail address. Just like on the RIPE

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Brent Jones
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:43 AM, Everton Marques wrote: Would Cisco ISR G2 3925E classify as software-based router? Yes. Do you expect it to bend itself down under a few Mbps of 64-byte packets? Especially if they're

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Mark Kosters
On 9/12/11 4:58 PM, Michael Sinatra mich...@rancid.berkeley.edu wrote: On 09/12/11 10:13, Always Learning wrote: Primarily IP ranges to block and/or abuse email addresses. https://www.arin.net/participate/mailing_lists/ Thank you. I will try it. Oh, and there they also like to see your

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:13 AM, Brent Jones wrote: A high end ASIC can handle millions/tens of millions PPS, but directed to the control plane (which is often a general purpose CPU as well, Intel or PowerPC), probably not in most scenarios. CoPP.

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Martin Millnert
Brent, On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net wrote: Lots of devices can have trouble if you direct high PPS to the control plane, and will exhibit performance degradation, leading up to a DoS eventually. That isn't limited to software based routers at all, it will

Re: Why are we still using the CA model? (Re: Microsoft deems all DigiNotar certificates untrustworthy, releases updates)

2011-09-12 Thread Tony Finch
Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: DNSSEC deployment is advanced enough now to do that automatically at the client. Sadly not quite. DNSSEC does have the potential to provide an alternative public key infrastructure, and I'm keen to see that happen. But although it works well between

RE: Saudi Telecom sending route with invalid attributes 212.118.142.0/24

2011-09-12 Thread Schiller, Heather A
Could be this..? http://www.juniper.net/techpubs/en_US/junos11.2/topics/reference/configuration-statement/independent-domain-edit-routing-options.html unrecognized transitive attributes depend on whatever code version you are running... What's more important is how the unrecoginized

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: I presume by a fair amount, I presume you mean barely any? At large packet sizes, an enterprise level router will just about handle a 1G DoS attack.  Thing is, bandwidth DoS / DDoS is sufficiently easy to [snip] How much

Re: vyatta for bgp

2011-09-12 Thread Tony Varriale
On 9/12/2011 3:12 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: On Sep 13, 2011, at 2:45 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: In your typical enterprise environment, a 1G DoS will zorch the link long before it zorches the router at the enterprise side. This contradicts my experience - I've repeatedly witnessed only a few

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Michael Sinatra
On 09/12/11 17:49, Jimmy Hess wrote: I think arin-discuss would be a better place for this than arin-ppml. You're suggesting using ARIN's private members-only mailing list over a public one? That doesn't make sense, because this is a public issue, not a members issue. PPML isn't right either,

Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?

2011-09-12 Thread Ryan Gelobter
I e-mailed Marco (md) the creator of 'whois' back in July when this started and he stated he was going to try to work around the rWHOIS issue in the next release. Sadly there hasn't been a new release yet but I am hopeful.