Re: ru tld down?

2024-02-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, 8 Feb 2024, 6:39 am Mark Andrews, wrote: > Given “MUST NOT” is not in RFC 4034, Appendix B, I’d take this with a grain > of salt. > "Implementations MUST NOT assume that the key tag uniquely identifies a DNSKEY RR." -- Töma >

Re: ru tld down?

2024-02-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, TWIMC: the .ru TLD has issued a post mortem. A tl;dr version: After a new key was crafted during an ordinary key update process, its key tag hash-collided with some other key, and due to a violation of the MUST NOT clause in the RFC 4034, Appendix B, the wrong key was deployed to the

Re: Request to participate in 2-min study survey on IPv6 Adoption

2022-01-31 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Jan 31, 2022, 11:01 PM Jay Hennigan wrote: > On 1/30/22 17:06, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > > IPv6 is now cheap as chips. It's very dirty therefore. All kinds of > > bots, spammers, password brute force programs live in there, and it's > > significantl

Re: Request to participate in 2-min study survey on IPv6 Adoption

2022-01-30 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 4:38 PM Smahena Amakran wrote: > For my studies, I am researching IPv6 adoption. > For your consideration, there's one thing that's always overlooked. E.g. I've been talking once to a big employee of a large content provider, and that person told me they don't

Re: Cloudflare Abuse Contact

2022-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 7, 2022 at 8:42 PM Mike Hale wrote: > The abuse email sends an auto-responder that tells you to use the web form. > The web form is centered around their web hosting business; I figured > I'd try general, but you can't submit it without punching in a URL > that is hosted by

Re: massive facebook outage presently

2021-10-04 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Oct 4, 2021, 10:17 PM Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: > Maybe the key to solve this issue is in an email sent to > some_very_important_t...@facebook.com Yeah except MX records on facebook dot com aren't working either -- Töma

Re: Mirai botnet is back — now as "Meris"

2021-09-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 7:57 PM Brandon Svec via NANOG wrote: > Oof. I wonder if there is any connection to their DDNS service outage a > couple days ago? > https://forum.mikrotik.com/viewtopic.php?t=178256 No, hardly any. That one seems to be just a DNS abuse reporting/delegation

Mirai botnet is back — now as "Meris"

2021-09-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, An undisclosed (or, even, yet undiscovered by the vendor) vulnerability in SOHO Mikrotik routers seems to be exploited by someone. Approx. 328 thousand devices already joined the botnet, with each having unrestricted access to the uplink (up to 1 Gbps). 42,6% of exploited devices reside

Re: Cloudflare peering contacts

2021-05-28 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, May 28, 2021, 7:33 PM Jun Tanaka wrote: > you can find a contact at this site. > https://www.cloudflare.com/peering-policy/ Yeah, that was my initial point of contact... half a year ago... -- Töma

Cloudflare peering contacts

2021-05-28 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, Is there anyone around from the Cloudflare peering team, or anyone who knows the right people? We've got a peering request that seems to be stalled. -- Töma

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-01 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 11:16 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > Akamai, and other CDNs, do not **generate** traffic ; they serve the > requests generated by users. > L3/4-wise, this is true. Application-wise, this is quite the other way around. -- Töma >

Re: wow, lots of akamai

2021-04-01 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Apr 1, 2021, 6:09 PM wrote: > That was a lot of traffic coming out of akamai aanp clusters the last > couple nights! What was it? > "Call of Duty" update again, obviously. https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-03-29-this-weeks-call-of-duty-warzone-update-is-over-50gb -- Töma

Re: AW: OVH datacenter SBG2 in Strasbourg on fire 

2021-03-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 1:10 AM Sabri Berisha wrote: > And because, for once, the French were not on strike, I donated $10 to the > American Red Cross. I believe the American Red Cross has long given up even trying to figure out who donates them how much and why. -- Töma

Re: London Interxion Data Centers

2021-02-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 10:05 PM Matthew Petach wrote: > Aren't they (LME) in Savvis, though? >> > That was certainly true in 2003, at least > Maybe it's still true today. tax.select.prd.lmexgw.com. *A*213.86.73.66 inetnum: 213.86.73.0 - 213.86.73.255 netname: NET-GB-LME descr: LME

Re: London Interxion Data Centers

2021-02-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace On Fri, Feb 26, 2021, 3:06 PM Rod Beck wrote: > My understanding is that there are three London Interxion data centers (I > thought Equinix was the Borg and had assimilated pretty everything at this > point). > > Trying to get the address where the facility where the London Metal >

Re: Retalitory DDoS

2021-02-08 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 2:48 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I got an e-mail explaining why I was getting DDoSed. Is that aspect common? Not quite. But it happens sometimes. > Is it safe to assume that they completely anonymized the email they sent to > me? Likely, but not necessarily. Look

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 3:24 PM Masataka Ohta < mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> wrote: > JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG wrote: > My proposal added the clarification that "majority" is understood as > "over 50%". > > And the proposal is denied to be unreasonable by Toma and, more >

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-22 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 22, 2021, 12:27 PM JORDI PALET MARTINEZ via NANOG: > The numbering resources under the stewardship of LACNIC must be > distributed among organizations legally constituted within its service > region [COBERTURA] and mainly *serving networks and services operating in > this

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 10:20 PM Fredrik Holmqvist / I2B wrote: > Just a question "this one hosted a Web site for a terrorist > organization", which terrorist organizations web site did they host ? > "Hamas", until November. That was discussed before on the mailing list. -- Töma >

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:57 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > fraudulent business records are used all over the world for things like > this all the time. Calling for a complete audit of LACNIC feels quite > extreme absent a pattern of issues, which doesn't seem to have been > presented. > Listen,

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 9:29 PM Tom Beecher wrote: > am I the only one to believe that (given that LACNIC had allocated an IP >> block to a company that doesn't conform to the LACNIC policies) what we >> urgently need to see next is the complete audit of the LACNIC operations, >> so that

Re: Nice work Ron

2021-01-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 21, 2021, 8:17 PM Jean St-Laurent via NANOG wrote: > > https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/01/ddos-guard-to-forfeit-internet-space-occupied-by-parler/ > A disclaimer: - Standing for the sanity of the Internet routing; - Assuming (quite reliably) actual policy violation; -

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:22 PM William Herrin wrote: > Are you sure about that? Consider your database. Suppose you want to > run your primary database in AWS with a standby replica in Azure. As > long as you install your own database software in both, you can do > that. But if you want

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:18 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > At my previous job, I built a tool which could spin up a server farm > given a platform agnostic design spec from a list of vendors as well as > pricing it out. It was really more of a prototype since it only > supported Chef on the

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 9:09 PM Michael Thomas wrote: > Yes, it's been obvious to anybody who's only paying even a little > attention that AWS is trying to be build a walled garden. In my experience, moving off Amazon services isn't that much of a trouble, especially if compared to

Re: Parler

2021-01-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 8:38 PM William Herrin wrote: > providers like Amazon tend to make it inconvenient approaching > impossible to build cross-platform services. I kinda wonder what a > cloud services product would look like that was actively trying to > facilitate cross-platform

Re: handling DDoS to hosted CDN cache

2021-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 3:28 AM Yang Yu wrote: > How often does your hosted CDN cache get DDoS'ed? I am curious how > these get handled (especially when it would cause upstream/backbone > congestion). Is this treated differently than DDoS to customers? I'm assuming you're speaking about

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 1:50 AM Matt Erculiani wrote: > I'm sure when the automation is perfect and widespread to the point that > it catches and alerts on every network event, the monitoring rooms will > disappear. > Which is never, but: With a proper RCA after each incident, not

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Dec 17, 2020, 12:21 AM Lady Benjamin PD Cannon wrote: > We are still operating ours - 27 1080P projectors - but with a skeleton > crew of just 3. Given the air volume, it’s almost like outside. > A devil advocate here, First of all, COVID-19 is really serious. With that in

Re: Are the days of the showpiece NOC office display gone forever?

2020-12-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 11:50 PM Eric Kuhnke wrote: > In the traditional sense, by "showpiece NOC" I mean a room designed for > the purpose of having large situational awareness displays on a wall, > network weathermaps and charts, alerting systems, composed of four or more > big flat

Re: AS203 (CenturyLink/Qwest/Level3/Lumen) hijack report

2020-10-22 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 4:11 AM Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > Following up on the today's massive partial network outage, here's the > analysis of what actually happened with the AS203's hijack, which is > the first one for the newly founded Lumen Technologies. > > https://blo

AS203 (CenturyLink/Qwest/Level3/Lumen) hijack report

2020-10-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, Following up on the today's massive partial network outage, here's the analysis of what actually happened with the AS203's hijack, which is the first one for the newly founded Lumen Technologies. https://blog.qrator.net/en/lumen-aka-centurylink-generating-routing-incidents_101/ -- Töma

Re: IP addresses on subnet edge (/24)

2020-09-14 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peacez On Tue, Sep 15, 2020, 12:26 AM Andrey Khomyakov wrote: > TL;DR I suspect there are middle boxes that don't like IPs ending in .255. > Anyone seen that? > Also .0 and .1. Yes, there was some kind of a strange behavior with those addresses before. We excluded those from rotation back in

Re: Does anyone actually like CenturyLink?

2020-08-31 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 4:42 PM Mike Bolitho wrote: > Maybe we should start an "Uptime mailing list" ha! > We already have outages@ which is a Boolean negation of what you're proposing but works just the same :-) -- Töma >

Re: Does anyone actually like CenturyLink?

2020-08-30 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sun, Aug 30, 2020, 6:02 PM Ross Tajvar wrote: > Other than lack of options, why would anyone use them? > Connectivity and latency (of Level3 which was acquired). -- Töma >

Re: TCP and UDP Port 0 - Should an ISP or ITP Block it?

2020-08-25 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 3:43 PM Pim van Stam wrote: > I think in general you can say that problems with UDP port 0 are in fact > fragments. Ohter opinions on this? > Either that, or dumb DDoS packet generators. -- Töma >

Re: TCP and UDP Port 0 - Should an ISP or ITP Block it?

2020-08-25 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 3:14 PM Jon Lewis wrote: > When an application sends more data via UDP than can be fit in a single > packet, only the first packet has a UDP header [where the port info is > stored]. The rest of the fragments have no UDP header, which most things > will report as

Re: TCP and UDP Port 0 - Should an ISP or ITP Block it?

2020-08-25 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 2:14 PM Douglas Fischer > I can think of a genuine use of it. > I'm curious which one. With Berkeley sockets there's technically no way to bind(2) to this port without some amount of kernel patching applied, and the system cannot allocate it by itself, either. --

Re: BGP route hijack by AS10990

2020-07-30 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 8:09 PM Patrick Schultz wrote: > so, bgp optimizers... again? > Looks so. Upstream filters are also to blame, though, but BGP optimization is the root of all evil. -- Töma >

Re: BGP route hijack by AS10990

2020-07-30 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jul 30, 2020, 5:48 AM Clinton Work wrote: > We saw a bunch of our IP blocks hijacked by AS10990 from 19:15 MDT until > 20:23 MDT. Anybody else have problems with that. > Here's what we discovered about the incident. Hope that brings some clarity.

Re: Don Smith, RIP.

2020-07-23 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Thank you Roland for letting us know, I have no words. I must say I honestly can't believe these news but I should. Throughout all those virtual meetings I was hoping one day we'll talk about things important for both of us once again. He was a leader. An inspiration. Wish his family stays

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-15 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, May 15, 2020, 12:25 PM Terrence Koeman via NANOG wrote: > FYI, the voting results for the three positions on the RIPE exec board > were just announced and Elad was NOT elected. > A funny moment: Raymond Jetten was elected to the board, and he's the RIPE IPv6 working group chair.

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:14 AM Elad Cohen wrote: > A degree in economics is not needed [..] Which is the common thing to say by the ones who don't have it. I think, dixi. -- Töma

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 2:04 AM Elad Cohen wrote: > [..] for example if spoofed DDoS amplification attacks are > causing yearly damages of $100M per year in the world > and these EOL equipment cost $50M in the world, it > might be worth to replace them) What's your degree in economics?

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:53 AM Elad Cohen wrote: > Who you are voting? Who me what?.. Alright, At this point, given that I've reviewed all of your proposals — some of those lengthy reviews were sent to members-discuss at ripe dot net before (though it has never been the right place

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:48 AM Elad Cohen wrote: > "forgive and forget." > Thank you for your vote. Well, when I forget anything that doesn't make sense about your proposals, there's nothing left to think of! Ergo, not at all, because I'm clearly not voting for you :-) -- Töma

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:01 PM Shane Ronan wrote: >> On Wed, May 13, 2020, 3:48 PM Elad Cohen wrote: >>> From: Töma Gavrichenkov >>> No, Elad. It is *you* who needs to prove that your concept works. >> >> For you nothing will work. > &

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 12:18 AM Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > On 2020-05-13 22:53, Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:43 PM Elad Cohen wrote: > > > For you nothing will work. > > > > IPv6 is working good for me so far ;-) >

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:43 PM Elad Cohen wrote: > For you nothing will work. Is it a personal attack? IPv6 is working good for me so far ;-) -- Töma

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:27 PM Elad Cohen wrote: > So you didn't even test the implementation and didn't create it - so why > you are writing "As a matter of fact". Which fact ? any evidence ? > No, Elad. It is *you* who needs to prove that your concept works. Unless you do it, it is

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, May 13, 2020, 10:07 PM Elad Cohen wrote: > "As a matter of fact" - if you created an implementation please send me > the sourcecode. > Wait, so you're coming up publicly with a proposal you don't even have a reference implementation for?! Oh, my. -- Töma >

Re: RIPE NCC Executive Board election

2020-05-13 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, May 13, 2020, 8:33 PM Elad Cohen wrote: > You clearly didn't understand how IPv4+ works. > That's because it doesn't work! Just like the rest of your "solutions", as a matter of fact. -- Töma >

Re: mail admins?

2020-04-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, Apr 22, 2020, 12:45 AM Randy Bush wrote: > sad. http://nanog.org used to be the brilliant example of a fully > featured web site sans javascript, flash, ... > That was long ago now. It was using Cvent for everything meeting-related for 3 years already, and Cvent doesn't feel

Re: Spike in traffic to Google caches?

2020-04-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 3:57 PM Hank Nussbacher wrote: > Did anyone notice a huge jump in traffic today between 11:30-11:40 (GMT) > directed at Google and Akamai caches coming from Amazon and Google? > Gaming updates? There's sort of a reason these days to subscribe to the Steam and

Re: Elad Cohen (was: Re: Cogent sales reps who actually respond)

2020-04-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 12:54 AM Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Those were all helpfully routed, until quite recently, to Mr. Cohen The person with exactly the same name now runs for the RIPE NCC Executive Board membership.

Re: TCP-AMP DDoS Attack - Fake abuse reports problem

2020-02-20 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 1:57 AM Filip Hruska wrote: > [..] OVH has been offering DDOS protection capable of soaking up hundreds > of gigabits+ per second as a standard with all their services for a long > time > They only do it for common trivial vectors like UDP-based amplification — and

Re: Forest HQ Has Received Your Message: Re: TCP-AMP DDoS Attack - Fake abuse reports problem

2020-02-20 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Help saving precious resources by unsubscribing from the NANOG mailing list, or I will have to report the abuse. On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 1:39 AM Electric Forest Festival < i...@electricforestfestival.com> wrote: > > *Electric Forest 2020 will take place on June 25-28, 2020.* > > Forest HQ has

Re: TCP-AMP DDoS Attack - Fake abuse reports problem

2020-02-20 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Feb 21, 2020, 1:18 AM Octolus Development wrote: > OVH are threatening to kick us off their network, because we are victims > of this attack. > Most of the hosting companies will do that to you because you're causing degradation of service quality for other customers.

Re: Forest HQ Has Received Your Message: Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-19 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, nanog-ow...@nanog.org On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 12:51 PM Dave Bell wrote: > Is anyone else receiving this spam? Yes > Is there a better way to report this? nanog-ow...@nanog.org (CC'd) helped me in the past. -- Töma

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-18 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 7:49 AM Daniel Sterling wrote: > May I naively ask if Google staff have considered scrapping using UDP > and instead proposing a new, first-class transport protocol that OSes > can implement on top of IP? The IETF WG did, at some point. The opinion overall I

Jenkins amplification

2020-02-03 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
FYI https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-2100 A nice description: https://mobile.twitter.com/Foone/status/1223063275996213248 May you live in interesting times. Do not postpone a software update if Jenkins is deployed somewhere in your network. -- Töma

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:49 AM Damian Menscher wrote: > They don't need to filter by destination. Once a problem customer has > been identified, they can apply an ACL restricting them to only originate > IPs they own. > > [..] > there are ways around that, including public shaming

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:42 AM Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > As for the detection of the real source, everything is technically > possible but you need certain bargaining power which a medium-sized (at > best) VPN service probably doesn't have. > ...because if they *di

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:32 AM Damian Menscher wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 5:10 PM Töma Gavrichenkov > wrote: > >> If this endpoint doesn't connect to anything outside of their network, >> then yes. >> If it does though, the design of the filter mi

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 4:02 AM Damian Menscher via NANOG wrote: > The victim already posted the signature to this thread: > - source IP: 51.81.119.7 > - protocol: 6 (tcp) > - tcp_flags: 2 (syn) > > That alone is sufficient for Level3/CenturyLink/etc to identify the source > of this

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-27 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 28, 2020, 3:43 AM Ben Cannon wrote: > Transit carriers could work the flows backwards. > And if the stars align, some of them might even do that for you once even though you are not their direct customer. Next you're going to convince them to talk to the (probably abuse

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-24 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020, 1:45 PM Simon Leinen wrote: > For your amusement, this latest e-bloodbath, erm -sports update, at 48GB > ("PC" version), would take about 463 days (~15 months) to complete at > 9600 bps (not counting overhead like packet headers etc.) > And now for our amusement Akamai can

Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

2020-01-23 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 8:58 PM Kevin McCormick wrote: > Just found the size of the updates, 48 GB on PC, 13 GB on PS4, and 18 GB > on Xbox One. > Whoa. We used to rack our brains with P2P protocols in the past in order to server just 1/20th of that. It's been a long decade indeed.

Re: DDoS Mitigation Survey

2020-01-14 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 2:35 AM Lumin Shi wrote: > Thank you for the feedback (that is a good point)! > > In our study, we lump both cloud/anycast-based and customer-premise > mitigation solutions together as solutions from DDoS mitigation service > providers. > And we believe if you are

Re: DDoS Mitigation Survey

2020-01-14 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 14, 2020, 10:22 PM Lumin Shi wrote: > With our preliminary survey so far, DDoS mitigation approaches in the real > world include 1) DDoS mitigation service providers (e.g., Akamai, > Cloudflare), 2) Remotely-Triggered Black Hole (RTBH), 3) BGP FlowSpec, and > 4) direct

Re: "Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

2020-01-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
I'm attaching the original pic in case they will replace it. The true knowledge would then be preserved! On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 11:05 PM Töma Gavrichenkov wrote: > This is the deadliest IPv6 packet structure infographics I've ever seen in > my life. > > https://noia.network/as

Re: "Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

2020-01-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
ere > > ^_^ > > > On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 12:07 PM Töma Gavrichenkov > wrote: > >> This is the deadliest IPv6 packet structure infographics I've ever seen >> in my life. >> >> https://noia.network/assets/concept-basics.jpg >> >> On Thu, J

Re: "Using Cloud Resources to Dramatically Improve Internet Routing"

2020-01-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
This is the deadliest IPv6 packet structure infographics I've ever seen in my life. https://noia.network/assets/concept-basics.jpg On Thu, Jan 9, 2020, 7:29 PM Aistis Zenkevičius wrote: > So, a bit like this then: https://noia.network/technology > > -Aistis > > > -Original Message- >

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-08 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, Hey, your website says you're the developer of OctoVPN which is a VPN solution. *This* might be effectively the reason of blocking, not a DDoS. Gaming and streaming services typically discourage VPN traffic because a) VPNs help to circumvent regional restrictions, b) miscreants use VPNs

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 9:10 PM Hugo Slabbert wrote: > And you're sure that you are the reflection target not the reflection vector? NB: I have just checked the IP addresses the OP has provided me with (offlist) against our database of known reflection sources, and I confirm that none of

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 9:10 PM Hugo Slabbert wrote: > And you're sure that you are the reflection target not the reflection > vector? > Well, in almost any* case blacklisting reflection vectors by IP is an insanely bad practice. * — I can *think* of a use case when this could be an

Re: Reaching out to Sony NOC, resolving DDoS Issues - Need POC

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Jan 6, 2020, 9:27 PM Octolus Development wrote: > We're facing some reflected DDoS attacks, where the source address is > spoofed to appear to be our IPs, and as a result getting blacklisted. > Sony's support has told us to "change IPs" > Wait, are they blacklisting spoofed

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Jan 6, 2020 at 7:17 PM David Hubbard wrote: > When they spam me I typically just ask if they have > IPv6 to Google and never hear back… Same here. Each time they reach out to me I quickly send them to investigate if they are able to lift the stupid 100th percentile requirement

Re: FYI - Suspension of Cogent access to ARIN Whois

2020-01-07 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 6:36 AM Martin Hannigan wrote: > Can you define exactly what services have been blocked? > IRR/ROA/TLA registry updates, etc? Were they blocked > ^174 or 174$? This is a precedent AFAIK. I’d like to > understand consequences. +1 -- Töma

Re: DDoS attack

2019-12-10 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 11:35 PM Florian Brandstetter via NANOG wrote: > if that was to be amplification, the source addresses > would not be within Google or CloudFlare ranges > (especially not CloudFlare, as they are not running > a vulnerable recursor Well, vulnerable — arguably of

Re: DDoS attack

2019-12-09 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 12:08 AM Mike Lewinski wrote: > My working theory is that with the Dec 3rd release of Halo Reach for PC, > there are gamers attempting to lag, but not knock off, their opponents. > This would be one reason to target adjacent unused addresses. > +1 Either this, or

Re: Software Defined Networks

2019-12-06 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Dec 6, 2019 at 2:54 PM Nick Morrison wrote: > > Please do not > > So does anyone still wonder why we have so few women in our field? > > Real nice, Töma. Thank you for highlighting! I totally admit that the language used would be deemed unacceptable for many community members.

Re: Recommended DDoS mitigation appliance?

2019-12-05 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 12:44 AM Hugo Slabbert wrote: > >FastNetMon is awesome, but its a detection tool with no mitigation > >capacity whatsoever. > > Does is not, though, provide the ability to hook into RTBH or Flowspec > setups? > Flowspec is enabled upstream, as previously prophecied.

Re: Software Defined Networks

2019-12-05 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Wed, Dec 4, 2019, 9:26 PM Ishmael Rufus wrote: > You can start by taking a look at Openflow which embraces the SDN concept. > Please do not begin learning about love with a rape video. -- Töma >

Re: Gmail email blocking is off the rails (again)

2019-12-04 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, Though I agree that Gmail spam filtering is top grade, or close to be so, it still sends to spam a statistically significant number of emails from IETF and ICANN mailing lists I'm subscribed to. It depends as well on which account I should receive those emails. While I understand and

Re: Recommended DDoS mitigation appliance?

2019-11-18 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 4:51 PM Mike Hammett wrote: > I would like the list to know that not all targets attract such large > attacks. > It is not that easily predictable. E.g. in case of reflection DDoS sometimes even the attacker has no good idea of how much of traffic s/he is

Re: Recommended DDoS mitigation appliance?

2019-11-17 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 5:25 AM Richard wrote: > The OP is very knowledgeable and would not mince words or waste bandwidth. > Sure, I totally assume that. I just feel I might offer a better advice once I see the big picture. -- Töma >

Re: Recommended DDoS mitigation appliance?

2019-11-17 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 1:49 AM Rabbi Rob Thomas wrote: > > I am going to assume you want it to spit out 10G clean, what size > > dirty traffic are you expecting it to handle? > > Great question! Let's say between 6Gbps and 8Gbps dirty. > As someone making a living as a DDoS mitigation

Re: DoD IP Space

2019-11-05 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Tue, Nov 5, 2019, 4:55 PM David Conrad wrote: > On Nov 4, 2019, at 10:56 PM, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: >> This thread got me to wondering, is there any >> legitimate reason to see 22/8 on the public >> Internet? Or would it be okay to treat 22/8 >> like a Bogon and drop it at the

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-02 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 7:20 PM Mike Bolitho wrote: >> I would imagine that the internet is a whole less resilient today in 2019 >> than it was back in the day before the cloud takeover. > It's far more resilient now than it has ever been. More sub-sea cables. > Multiple routes across

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-01 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Sat, Nov 2, 2019 at 3:16 AM Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > If somehow all the transatlantic (and/or transpacific) cables are offline ...then probably a horrific global disaster has occurred, and a sudden degradation of the Internet connectivity would be about the least of your

Re: [nanog] BGP routes by country

2019-09-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Fri, Sep 27, 2019, 1:07 AM Michel Py wrote: > A while ago, I tried to block China. The attack profile lowered a little > bit, but I did not feel my network was safer. Looks kind of futile to me. > The bots are everywhere, blocking entire countries does not reduce the > risk much. >

Re: BGP routes by country

2019-09-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Sep 26, 2019, 7:19 PM Chris Phillips wrote: > Greetings, > > Is anyone offering a service providing BGP routes by country? I'm not > looking to buy transit, but rather build policies based on the routes > received to allow traffic from certain countries, or disallow traffic from

Re: Consistent routing policy?

2019-09-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 12:04 PM Owen DeLong wrote: > For any router which receives both announcements, longest match always > wins over all other BGP tie-breaking criteria. > > This is almost always summarized as “Longest Match always wins” because > virtually any engineer recognizes that

Re: Consistent routing policy?

2019-09-16 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Sep 16, 2019, 6:06 AM Mark Tinka wrote: > Longest match always wins... so provided your /22's are in the global > table, traffic will follow the path toward them before the /21 is > preferred. > Not always. E.g. imagine an ISP who has two connections to the outside world: one

Re: SLA language about monitoring route leaks and inter-connection issues

2019-08-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 9:54 PM Jared Mauch wrote: > We do our own internal monitoring of our announcements for now. Good for you and your customers! That is already a clear signal of an extraordinary service to your customers. Not to underestimate your effort which I respect, but the

Re: SLA language about monitoring route leaks and inter-connection issues

2019-08-26 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Mon, Aug 26, 2019, 8:05 PM Sean Donelan wrote: > Do any major ISPs have SLA language about monitoring inter-provider > agreements for route hijacking, route leaks, address spoofing, and so on? > > I'm looking for something more proactive than waiting for a customer to > notice a

Re: Reflection DDoS last week (was: syn flood attacks from NL-based netblocks)

2019-08-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 12:17 AM Damian Menscher wrote: > Some additional questions, if you're able to answer them (off-list is fine if > there are things that can't be shared broadly): > - Was the attack referred to law enforcement? It is being referred to now. This would most

Reflection DDoS last week (was: syn flood attacks from NL-based netblocks)

2019-08-21 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
Peace, Here's to confirm that the pattern reported before in NANOG was indeed a reflection DDoS attack. On Sunday, it also hit our customer, here's the report: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/root-cause-analysis-and-incident-report-on-the-august-ddos-attack-300905405.html tl;dr:

Re: syn flood attacks from NL-based netblocks

2019-08-19 Thread Töma Gavrichenkov
On Mon, Aug 19, 2019, 9:24 PM Florian Brandstetter wrote: > ​Load balancing is done on Layer 4 or Layer 3 when routing, so your > ingress connection will have the same hash as the outgoing connection > (unless the source port of the connection changes on the ACK - which it > really should not).

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