Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-21 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: be assigned again, so a static filter policy will return to bite us again like it always does. sure, so you are saying there's a timelimit on how long the supposed ISP can run this infrastructure... and that they have until

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-21 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 4:59 AM, Ken Gilmour ken.gilm...@gmail.com wrote: What happens when the client sends a POST from a cached page on the end user's machine? E.g. if they post login credentials. Of course, they'll get the error page, but then you have confidential data in your logs and now

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-21 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:29:04 CST, Jimmy Hess said: Once your user has shared confidential information unsolicited with an unknown third party, and the general public, the information's confidentiality was spoiled by the act of posting, regardless of the content of the information I see

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-21 Thread Henry Linneweh
Here is a repeat http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/02/16/ghost_domains_dns_vuln/ -henry From: valdis.kletni...@vt.edu valdis.kletni...@vt.edu To: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2012 3:15 PM Subject: Re: DNS Attacks

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-20 Thread Tei
I am a mere user, so I all this stuff sounds to me like giberish. The right solution is to capture the request to these DNS servers, and send to a custom server with a static message warning.html. Nothing fancy. With a phone number to get out of jail, so people can call to op-out of this

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-20 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0100, Tei said: The right solution is to capture the request to these DNS servers, and send to a custom server with a static message warning.html. Not all DNS lookups are for websites. The lookup could be for NTP, or SMTP, or ssh, or a World of Warcraft server,

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:38:00 +0100, Tei said: The right solution is to capture the request to these DNS servers, and send to a custom server with a static message  warning.html. Not all DNS lookups are for websites.  The lookup

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-20 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: I am a mere user, so I all this stuff sounds to me like giberish. The right solution is to capture the request to these DNS servers, and send to a custom server with a static message  warning.html. Nothing fancy.   With a

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-20 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 2/20/12 09:57 , Christopher Morrow wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 10:38 AM, Tei oscar.vi...@gmail.com wrote: I am a mere user, so I all this stuff sounds to me like giberish. The right solution is to capture the request to these DNS servers, and send to a custom server with a static

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-19 Thread Ken Gilmour
On Feb 18, 2012 10:24 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Even better, nat to a 'bogon' DNS server -- one that -- regardless of the query -- returns the address of a dedicated machine on your network set up especially for this purpose. What happens when the client sends a POST

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-19 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 19, 2012, at 10:59, Ken Gilmour ken.gilm...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 18, 2012 10:24 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: Even better, nat to a 'bogon' DNS server -- one that -- regardless of the query -- returns the address of a dedicated machine on your network set up

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-19 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:02:01 +0100, Jeroen Massar said: Per default most webservers (Apache, nginx, etc) won't log POST variables, GET variables will be logged (as they are part of the query) but those should not contain any PII. Right. They shouldn't. But the security mailing lists have

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-19 Thread Robert Bonomi
From ken.gilm...@gmail.com Sun Feb 19 05:04:39 2012 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:59:37 +0100 Subject: Re: DNS Attacks From: Ken Gilmour ken.gilm...@gmail.com To: Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org On Feb 18, 2012 10:24 PM, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-19 Thread Ken Gilmour
-- Sent from my smart phone. Please excuse my brevity On Feb 19, 2012 4:10 p.m., Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: From ken.gilm...@gmail.com Sun Feb 19 05:04:39 2012 Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:59:37 +0100 Subject: Re: DNS Attacks From: Ken Gilmour ken.gilm...@gmail.com

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-18 Thread Henry Linneweh
http://thehackernews.com/2012/02/fbi-will-shutdown-internet-on-march-8.html From: toor li...@1337.mx To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 9:04 PM Subject: DNS Attacks Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-18 Thread Joel M Snyder
http://thehackernews.com/2012/02/fbi-will-shutdown-internet-on-march-8.html Quoting the FBI: 85.255.112.0 through 85.255.127.255 67.210.0.0 through 67.210.15.255 93.188.160.0 through 93.188.167.255 77.67.83.0 through 77.67.83.255 213.109.64.0 through 213.109.79.255 64.28.176.0 through

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-02-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
Joel M Snyder joel.sny...@opus1.com wrote; http://thehackernews.com/2012/02/fbi-will-shutdown-internet-on-march-8.html Quoting the FBI: 85.255.112.0 through 85.255.127.255 67.210.0.0 through 67.210.15.255 93.188.160.0 through 93.188.167.255 77.67.83.0 through 77.67.83.255 213.109.64.0

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-19 Thread Ken A
On 1/18/2012 1:45 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: On 18 Jan 2012, at 05:06, toorli...@1337.mx wrote: Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Jan 18, 2012, at 2:45 AM, Leigh Porter wrote: The firewall is significant because the attacks killed the firewall as it is rather under specified (not my idea..). DNS servers (nor any other kind of server, for that matter) should never be placed behind stateful firewalls - the largest

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Dennis
I agree with Roland on the firewall placement. I add that the attack would have likely succeeded to exhaust the servers. There is alot of recent ddos activity on DNS with what looks like legitimate queries. You should also look at some DOS/ application level protections; Radware and Arbor

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread virendra rode
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi - We've been victims of these attacks many a times and more recently towards our customer dns servers which was rated at ~ 4gbps for a duration of 30mins. Tracking the source of an attack is simplified when the source is more likely to be

RE: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 8:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: DNS Attacks -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi - We've been victims of these attacks many a times and more recently towards our customer dns servers which was rated at ~ 4gbps for a duration of 30mins

RE: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Leigh Porter
@nanog.org Subject: Re: DNS Attacks I agree with Roland on the firewall placement. I add that the attack would have likely succeeded to exhaust the servers. There is alot of recent ddos activity on DNS with what looks like legitimate queries. You should also look at some DOS/ application level

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 18/01/2012 14:18, Leigh Porter wrote: Yeah like I say, it wasn't my idea to put DNS behind firewalls. As long as it is not *my* firewalls I really don't care what they do ;-) As you're posting here, it looks like it's become your problem. :-D Seriously, though, there is no value to

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/01/2012 14:18, Leigh Porter wrote: Yeah like I say, it wasn't my idea to put DNS behind firewalls. As long as it is not *my* firewalls I really don't care what they do ;-) As you're posting here, it looks like it's

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:41 30AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/01/2012 14:18, Leigh Porter wrote: Yeah like I say, it wasn't my idea to put DNS behind firewalls. As long as it is not *my* firewalls I really don't care

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:41 30AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On 18/01/2012 14:18, Leigh Porter wrote: Yeah like I say, it wasn't my idea to put

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Jan 18, 2012 8:43 AM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: On Jan 18, 2012, at 10:41 30AM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Nick Hilliard n...@foobar.org wrote: On

RE: DNS Attacks

2012-01-18 Thread Drew Weaver
-Original Message- From: Christopher Morrow [mailto:morrowc.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:43 AM To: Steven Bellovin Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: DNS Attacks yup... I think roland and nick (he can correct me, roland I KNOW is saying this) are basically

DNS Attacks

2012-01-17 Thread toor
Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up blank. I am completly guessing these are possibly DNS amplification attacks but I am not sure.

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Andrews
In message caljcmpma-gxuerpufeawtgzn4qtvkxjtaefl3d9gc0otvs9...@mail.gmail.com, toor writes: Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-17 Thread Christopher Morrow
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:04 AM, toor li...@1337.mx wrote: Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a china is a big country pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up blank. I

Re: DNS Attacks

2012-01-17 Thread Leigh Porter
On 18 Jan 2012, at 05:06, toor li...@1337.mx wrote: Hi list, I am wondering if anyone else has seen a large amount of DNS queries coming from various IP ranges in China. I have been trying to find a pattern in the attacks but so far I have come up blank. I am completly guessing these are

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-12-02 Thread Ryan Rawdon
; lel...@taranta.discpro.org Subject: RE: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-12-02 Thread Leland Vandervort
...@rocketmail.com Cc: nanog@nanog.org; lel...@taranta.discpro.org Subject: RE: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-12-02 Thread Joel Maslak
Subject: RE: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

Re: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-12-02 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, Joel Maslak jmas...@antelope.net said: Other than being non-compliant, is an ANY query used by any major software? Could someone rate limit ANY responses to mitigate this particular issue? I believe qmail still uses ANY lookups. -- Chris Adams cmad...@hiwaay.net Systems and

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-12-02 Thread Rob.Vercouteren
Since it is spoofed traffic we block the source, so not participating in flooding the real ip address. The real issue is verify unicast reverse path not being implemented. So that the ip addresses cannot be spoofed! (unless we are dealing with some major unknown vurlnerabilities in our

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: Recent DNS attacks from China?

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

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: 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

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: 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
...@taranta.discpro.org Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:32 PM Subject: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

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
Vandervort lel...@taranta.discpro.org Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 4:32 PM Subject: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Matlock, Kenneth L
@nanog.org; Leland Vandervort Subject: Re: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

RE: Recent DNS attacks from China?

2011-11-30 Thread Rob.Vercouteren
: woensdag 30 november 2011 19:57 Aan: Richard Barnes; andrew.wallace CC: nanog@nanog.org; Leland Vandervort Onderwerp: RE: Recent DNS attacks from China? 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

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

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: 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: [Fwd: Re: DNS attacks evolve]

2008-08-14 Thread bert hubert
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:07:30AM -0700, Mike Leber wrote: FYI. There was some question here about whether PowerDNS was vulnerable or not and what it was doing, so I asked Bert Hubert about it. Here is his answer: And my additional nuance: By the way - just to nuance things, I'm sure

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-11 Thread Jack Bates
Joe Greco wrote: 6) Have someone explain to me the reasoning behind allowing the corruption of in-cache data, even if the data would otherwise be in-baliwick. I'm not sure I quite get why this has to be. It would seem to me to be safer to discard the data. (Does not eliminate the

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-11 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 09:41:54AM -0500, Jack Bates wrote: 7) Have someone explain to me the repeated claims I've seen that djbdns and Nominum's server are not vulnerable to this, and why that is. PowerDNS has this to say about their non-vulnerability status:

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-11 Thread Jack Bates
Leo Bicknell wrote: If your vendor told you that you are not at risk they are wrong, and need to go re-read the Kaminski paper. EVERYONE is vunerable, the only question is if the attack takes 1 second, 1 minute, 1 hour or 1 day. While possibly interesting for short term problem management none

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joe Greco: I am very, very, very disheartened to be shown to be wrong. As if 8 days wasn't bad enough, a concentrated attack has been shown to be effective in 10 hours. See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/technology/09flaw.html Note that the actual bandwidth utilization on that GE link

DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-09 Thread Joe Greco
It's usually interesting to be proven wrong, but perhaps not in this case. I was among the first to point out that the 11-second DNS poisioning claim made by Vixie only worked out to about a week of concentrated attack after the patch. This was a number I extrapolated purely from Paul's

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-09 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Greco) writes: I am very, very, very disheartened to be shown to be wrong. As if 8 days wasn't bad enough, a concentrated attack has been shown to be effective in 10 hours. See http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/09/technology/09flaw.html that's what theory predicted.

Re: DNS attacks evolve

2008-08-09 Thread Kee Hinckley
On Aug 9, 2008, at 6:23 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: second, please think carefully about the word severe. any time someone can cheerfully hammer you at full-GigE speed for 10 hours, you've got some trouble, and you'll need to monitor for those troubles. 11 seconds of 10MBit/sec fit my definition