RE: IPv6 version of www.qwest.com/www.centurylink.com has been down for 10 days

2011-11-30 Thread Frank Bulk
Well, sometime yesterday www.centurylink.com removed it record(s). www.qwest.com still has them. Frank -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:frnk...@iname.com] Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 1:47 PM To: 'nanog@nanog.org' Subject: RE: IPv6 version of

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Brad Fleming
On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:17 PM, compt...@kc.rr.com wrote: We lost several of our GigE links to ATT for 6 hours on 11/19, anyone else see this and get a root cause from ATT? All I can get is that they believe a change caused the issue. We lost several (but not all) of our Optiman circuits on

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
Yikes, Owen. That's a lot of responses... Saying you can mitigate neighbor table exhaustion with a simple ACL is misleading (and you're not the only one who has tried to make that claim). You can mitigate it by: 1. Using a stateful firewall (not an ACL) outside the router responsible for the

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Stefan
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Brad Fleming bdfle...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:17 PM, compt...@kc.rr.com wrote: We lost several of our GigE links to ATT for 6 hours on 11/19, anyone else see this and get a root cause from ATT? All I can get is that they believe a change

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Blake Hudson
Stefan wrote the following on 11/30/2011 8:53 AM: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Brad Flemingbdfle...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:17 PM,compt...@kc.rr.com wrote: We lost several of our GigE links to ATT for 6 hours on 11/19, anyone else see this and get a root cause from ATT?

PPPOE dialer issue on Cisco C2811

2011-11-30 Thread Meftah Tayeb
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Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: Saying you can mitigate neighbor table exhaustion with a simple ACL is misleading (and you're not the only one who has tried to make that claim). It's true, though, you can. But you can also mitigate neighbor table exhaustion by

Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Leland Vandervort
Hi All, I am wondering if anyone else is seeing a sudden increase in DNS attacks emanating from chinese IP addresses? Over the past 24 hours we've seen a sudden rash of chinese IPs attacking our DNS servers in the order of 5 to 10 million PPS for periods of 5 to 10 mins, repeated every 20

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: 1. Using a stateful firewall (not an ACL) outside the router responsible for the 64-bit prefix.  This doesn't scale, and is not a design many would find acceptable (it has almost all the problems of an ISP running NAT) Owen has

Used your smartphone to log into your network?

2011-11-30 Thread Rich Kulawiec
If so, this might be a good time to change passwords, and to review what other information has transited your phone. (Note: androidsecuritytest.com appears to be slashdotted at the moment.) November 16: initial reports of Carrier IQ spyware surface: CarrierIQ: Most Phones Ship

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Brzozowski, John
From a requirements point of view I am not sure I would enforce these sort of restrictions. John On 11/29/11 6:59 AM, Dmitry Cherkasov doctor...@gmail.com wrote: John, I am determining technical requirements to IPv6 provisioning system for DOCSIS networks and I am deciding if it is worth to

RE: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jamie Bowden
-Original Message- From: Jimmy Hess [mailto:mysi...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 11:14 AM To: Ray Soucy Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks? On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote:

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Brzozowski, John
Technically this is not true. SLAAC is not prohibited, it does come with side affects that complicate the deployment of IPv6. It is technically feasible to use SLAAC, it is just not practical in most cases. Stateful DHCPv6 is the preferred mechanism for address and configuration assignment.

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Rob.Vercouteren
Hello Leland, Yes we do see the same behavior! regards, Rob Vercouteren

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
Owen and I have gone back and fourth over the year(s) as well. I think it really comes down to Owen's adamant belief that _every_ network should be a 64-bit prefix, and that SLAAC should be used for addressing, because it's simple and people will only adopt IPv6 if it's simple. The whole

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread -Hammer-
There was a new BIND vulnerability announced... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-4313 -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 11/30/2011 10:59 AM, rob.vercoute...@kpn.com wrote: Hello Leland, Yes we do see the same behavior! regards, Rob Vercouteren

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Brad Fleming
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Blake Hudson wrote: Stefan wrote the following on 11/30/2011 8:53 AM: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Brad Flemingbdfle...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 8:17 PM,compt...@kc.rr.com wrote: We lost several of our GigE links to ATT for 6 hours on 11/19,

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread David Conrad
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:13 AM, -Hammer- wrote: There was a new BIND vulnerability announced... http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2011-4313 I strongly suspect the BIND vulnerability is unrelated. These attacks appear to be simple (if large) DDoSes. Regards, -drc

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread david raistrick
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011, Leland Vandervort wrote: I am wondering if anyone else is seeing a sudden increase in DNS attacks emanating from chinese IP addresses? Over the past 24 hours we've seen a sudden rash of chinese IPs attacking our DNS servers in the order of 5 to 10 million PPS for

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread -Hammer-
Just offering it up. It's not a 0day or anything but it is recently published. I am not receiving the DoS so I haven't had a chance to observe the traffic. -Hammer- I was a normal American nerd -Jack Herer On 11/30/2011 11:40 AM, David Conrad wrote: On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:13 AM, -Hammer-

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Joe Maimon
Brad Fleming wrote: In either case I'm a customer and will likely never be told what went wrong. I'm OK with that so long as it doesn't happen again! Does being told what happened somehow prevent it from happening it again? What is the utilitarian value in an RFO? Joe

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Brad Fleming
In either case I'm a customer and will likely never be told what went wrong. I'm OK with that so long as it doesn't happen again! Does being told what happened somehow prevent it from happening it again? Nope. But if this same issue crops up again we'll have to work the system harder and

RE: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Soni, Miraaj
No. It doesn't prevent it from happening again. But at least you can have them check for that same issue when it happens next time. I guess the RFO gives the customer the feeling that the vendor was able to isolate the issue and fix it; as opposed to issue was resolved before isolation. - Miraaj

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Leland Vandervort lel...@taranta.discpro.org said: I am wondering if anyone else is seeing a sudden increase in DNS attacks emanating from chinese IP addresses? Over the past 24 hours we've seen a sudden rash of chinese IPs attacking our DNS servers in the order of 5 to 10

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread andrew.wallace
Before we see knee-jerk conclusions about who to blame, these attacks could be carried out by anyone. Is country even relevant in the cyberscape? Andrew From: Leland Vandervort lel...@taranta.discpro.org To: nanog@nanog.org Cc: Leland Vandervort

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:24:21 PST, andrew.wallace said: Before we see knee-jerk conclusions about who to blame, these attacks could be carried out by anyone. Is country even relevant in the cyberscape? Reading comprehension, Andrew. Leland never said the Chinese were behind it, he never even

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Richard Barnes
An attack originating from somewhere indicates the presence of either an attacker or a compromised host. A particular density of either in a particular geographical area would seem like an interesting data point. --Richard On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:24 PM, andrew.wallace

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-11-30 Thread joshua sahala
tyler, some additional soft skills that will help you distinguish yourself from others: - learn to write well: take some creative writing classes in addition to technical writing. being able to efficiently write clear, concise, and effective documentation is a skill that is necessary,

RE: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Holmes,David A
What I have seen lately with telco's building and operating Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) based Ethernet networks is that relatively inexperienced telco staff are in charge of configuring and operating the networks, where telco operational staff are unaware of layer 2 Ethernet network nuances,

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
Except in this case it's a DNS attack, which implies UDP based and easily spoofed. The source IP may or may not actually be accurate. Ken From: Richard Barnes [mailto:richard.bar...@gmail.com] Sent: Wed 11/30/2011 11:51 AM To: andrew.wallace Cc:

Re: ATT GigE issue on 11/19 in Kansas City

2011-11-30 Thread Mike Jones
On 30 November 2011 17:45, Joe Maimon jmai...@ttec.com wrote: Brad Fleming wrote: In either case I'm a customer and will likely never be told what went wrong. I'm OK with that so long as it doesn't happen again! Does being told what happened somehow prevent it from happening it again?

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Jeff Wheeler j...@inconcepts.biz wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: Owen has suggested stateful firewall as a solution to me in the past.  There is not currently any firewall with the necessary features to do this.  We

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:41:49PM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: What's the overwhelming benefit of forcing in a /126 on your P-t-P inter-router links if it has risks and complicates matters so much? Making Owen happy. :) -- Leo Bicknell - bickn...@ufp.org - CCIE 3440

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Rob.Vercouteren
Yes it is, but the problem is that our servers are attacking the so called source address. All the answers are going back to the source. It is huge amplification attacks. (some sort of smurf if you want) The ip addresses are spoofed (We did a capture and saw all different ttl's so coming from

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Drew Weaver
-Original Message- From: rob.vercoute...@kpn.com [mailto:rob.vercoute...@kpn.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:05 PM To: matlo...@exempla.org; richard.bar...@gmail.com; andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org; lel...@taranta.discpro.org Subject: RE: Recent DNS attacks

IPv6 NPT and NAT for Linux

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
For those who missed it, Linux is adding NAT for IPv6 to netfilter: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg19979.html Along with tradition SNAT, and DNAT targets most of us are familiar with, a new NETMAP target is included that implements NPT (network prefix translation). I for one am

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: Owen and I have gone back and fourth over the year(s) as well. I think it really comes down to Owen's adamant belief that _every_ network should be a 64-bit prefix, and that SLAAC should be used for addressing, because it's simple and people

Re: IPv6 NPT and NAT for Linux

2011-11-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 03:14:07PM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote: I for one am happy to see this; despite not wanting to see people NAT IPv6 as the norm, having the NETMAP target will largely replace the use of SNAT and MASQUERADE for many deployments, while keeping those tools

Re: IPv6 NPT and NAT for Linux

2011-11-30 Thread Dale W. Carder
On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:14 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: For those who missed it, Linux is adding NAT for IPv6 to netfilter: http://www.spinics.net/lists/netfilter-devel/msg19979.html Along with tradition SNAT, and DNAT targets most of us are familiar with, a new NETMAP target is included that

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Hal Murray
I am wondering if anyone else is seeing a sudden increase in DNS attacks emanating from chinese IP addresses? Over the past 24 hours we've seen a sudden rash of chinese IPs attacking our DNS servers in the order of 5 to 10 million PPS for periods of 5 to 10 mins, repeated every 20 to 30

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: As such, I prefer to deploy IPv6 as it is today and resolve the bugs and the security issues along the way (much like we did with IPv4). Why is the Hurricane Electric backbone using /126 link-nets, not /64? You used to

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread sthaug
I am wondering if anyone else is seeing a sudden increase in DNS attacks emanating from chinese IP addresses? Over the past 24 hours we've seen a sudden rash of chinese IPs attacking our DNS servers in the order of 5 to 10 million PPS for periods of 5 to 10 mins, repeated every 20 to 30

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I do believe that there is no benefit to longer prefixes than /64. Nobody has provided any convincing evidence to the contrary. There are better ways to mitigate ND than longer prefixes. Agree to disagree, I guess. -- Ray

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Blackman
On 30 Nov 2011, at 21:10, Ray Soucy wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: I do believe that there is no benefit to longer prefixes than /64. Nobody has provided any convincing evidence to the contrary. There are better ways to mitigate ND than longer

RE: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
To be honest, I can't work out the point of preferring a /64 in the first place if you're not using SLAAC and I'm not sure why SLAAC wanted more than 48 bits. If you use broad ACLs to lock down to a /126 or /112 equivalent, why bother with the /64 in the first place? However, I'm new

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Bill Stewart
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 3:46 AM, Dmitry Cherkasov doctor...@gmail.com wrote: Currently I research on IPv6 provisioning systems and I need to decide whether the ability to use longer then /64 prefixes should be supported in them or not. If we restrict user to using /64 per network we need to

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Doug Barton
On 11/30/2011 14:46, Bill Stewart wrote: There's a very strong case to be made for Be conservative in what you generate and liberal in what you accept here. I've been saying for years that your safest bet is to reserve a /64, regardless of how many bits you use out of it, or why. If you do that

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Bill Stewart
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: ... and I'm not sure why SLAAC wanted more than 48 bits. One reason IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long instead of 40, 48, 64 or 80 is because converting from IPv4 to IPv6 is really painful and we don't want to ever have to do

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Blackman
On 30 Nov 2011, at 23:02, Bill Stewart wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Mark Blackman m...@exonetric.com wrote: ... and I'm not sure why SLAAC wanted more than 48 bits. One reason IPv6 addresses are 128 bits long instead of 40, 48, 64 or 80 is because converting from IPv4 to IPv6 is

Re: Looking for a Tier 1 ISP Mentor for career advice.

2011-11-30 Thread Bill Stewart
Another really useful skill is knowing what it looks like to be a customer / end user of one of those networks. Sure, it's fun to crank obscure BGP load-balancing techniques, but you also need to know where the industry as a whole is going technically and business-wise. Tier 1s sell to Tier 2s,

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
I agree with pretty much everything Bill, Doug, and Nathan just said. Just remember 640K ought to be enough for anybody. ;-) It's usually unwise to make statements about never needing more than where technology is concerned. IPv6 is still in its let's get people to use this phase; I don't think

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Nov 30, 2011, at 9:10 AM, Ray Soucy wrote: I do believe that there is no benefit to longer prefixes than /64. Nobody has provided any convincing evidence to the contrary. Yes they have, thoroughly; mitigation of this one

In need of a Microsoft Postmaster

2011-11-30 Thread Mark Keymer
I am in great hopes that a Microsoft Postmaster could get in contact with me. This is dealing with a delisting of a banned IP blocked using Blocklist 3, mail from IP banned My client is e-mailing a vendor of theirs who's mail goes to mail.messaging.microsoft.com We have submitted a request

Re: HP IPv6 RA Guard

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
This is great news. I wonder if this is evidence that they plan to continue to develop the Procurve line and eventually abandon the 3Com line. Uncertainty of which line would win out has kept me (and others I'm sure) from wanting to invest in anything HP. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Jason

Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread Mike Jones
On 1 December 2011 00:55, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: Please explain.    What are the better ways that you would propose of mitigating ND table overflows? If you can show a rational alternative, then it would be persuasive as a better option. Link-Local? For true P-t-P links I guess

Re: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
I for one get really irritated when my traceroutes and pings are broken and I need to troubleshoot things. ;-) But I guess something has to give. On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Mike Jones m...@mikejones.in wrote: On 1 December 2011 00:55, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: Please explain.  

Re: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread Mike Jones
On 1 December 2011 02:22, Ray Soucy r...@maine.edu wrote: I for one get really irritated when my traceroutes and pings are broken and I need to troubleshoot things. ;-)  But I guess something has to give. My home connection gets IPv6 connectivity via a tunnelbroker tunnel, i didn't use the

Re: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
I was half joking, but you know, you might be on to something there. I'll have to try it out and see what the implications are. I know that for our gear, it uses the interface address so we can map rDNS to something useful. The other thing to look into would be neighbor configuration for

Re: HP IPv6 RA Guard

2011-11-30 Thread Ray Soucy
Comment can be appreciated but please remove the I2 WG address from responses unless it's something you want to blast to that community, I don't want them upset at me for filling their inbox with a 40 email NANOG thread (you know how this list can get). ;-) On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Brent

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:19:51 EST, Ray Soucy said: There is a lot of talk about buggy systems that are unable to handle prefixes longer than 64; but I've yet to encounter one. I imagine if I did it would be treated as a bug and fixed. What year did Cisco first release IOS? What year did

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-30 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 07:19:51PM -0500, Ray Soucy wrote: There is a lot of talk about buggy systems that are unable to handle prefixes longer than 64; but I've yet to encounter one. I imagine if This has been one of the first thing I tested with new router gear for,

RE: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread McCall, Gabriel
Well, traceroutes and other ICMP functions would break. It is occasionally useful to be able to address a specific router interface from someplace other than its connected peer. -Gabriel -Original Message- From: Mike Jones [mailto:m...@mikejones.in] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Re: Link local for P-t-P links? (Was: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?)

2011-11-30 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:33 PM, McCall, Gabriel gabriel.mcc...@thyssenkrupp.com wrote: Well, traceroutes and other ICMP functions would break. It is occasionally useful to be able to address a specific router interface from someplace other than its connected peer. Unless your router always