RE: IPv6 allocations, deaggregation, etc.

2009-12-23 Thread George Bonser
Apologies in advance for the top post. My initial idea was to use a /48, divide it up into /56 nets for each facility with /64 subnets within each facility. We would announce a /48 to our transit providers that I would expect them to announce in turn to their peers and we would also

Experiences with Comcast Ethernet/Transit service

2009-12-23 Thread Brandon Galbraith
We're looking at using Comcast's (business) transit and private ethernet services at several client locations and I wanted to see what experiences others have had regarding this. Off-list replies are preferred. Thanks, -brandon -- Brandon Galbraith Mobile: 630.400.6992

[NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Takashi Tome
Hi All Morgan Stanley has released a very interesting report on internet business with some tips to net operators: http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/mobile_internet_report122009.html Regards Takashi Tome CPqD www.cpqd.com.br

IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Kent
Hi, Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets? Wondering that if they do, then how would snooping switches work? Affably, Kent

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-23 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:58:47AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: no real arguement, but... 'please provide some set of workable solutions' The set of workable solutions at this point looks something like null routes, firewall rules, blacklist entries -- in order to deny traffic to and from

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Peter Hicks
Glen Kent wrote: Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets? Wondering that if they do, then how would snooping switches work? Would encrypting multicast not fundamentally break the concept of multicast itself, unless you're encrypting multicast traffic over a backbone?

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread David Barak
Multicast encryption using GDOI works well, although I haven't seen that implemented on a LAN. If you're trying to provide encryption for LAN listeners (more accurately to exclude some LAN listeners) you'll probably find more bang for the buck in implementing this on a per-application basis.

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Glen Kent wrote: Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets What are you trying to 'protect' them against? --- Roland Dobbins rdobb...@arbor.net // http://www.arbornetworks.com

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Kent
Would encrypting multicast not fundamentally break the concept of multicast itself, unless you're encrypting multicast traffic over a backbone? No, i wasnt alluding to encrypting the multicast traffic. I was thinking of using ESP-NULL (AH is optional) for the IGMP/PIM packets. Affably, Kent

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Kent
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Glen Kent wrote: Any idea if folks use AH or ESP to protect IGMP/PIM packets What are you trying to 'protect' them against? Just integrity protection to ensure that my reports, etc. are

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-23 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Rich Kulawiec wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 01:58:47AM -0500, Christopher Morrow wrote: no real arguement, but... 'please provide some set of workable solutions' The set of workable solutions at this point looks something like null routes, firewall rules, blacklist entries -- in order to

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Morris
So we're looking to complicate things for the same of complicating them? Using a predictable security doesn't exactly make things secure does it? On the links that you are running PIM or IGMP on, do you not have a predictable set of clients and therefore problems? Or are we trying to protect

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Morris
But IGMP IS the control traffic with users. And PIM IS the control traffic between multicast routers. ? Scott Glen Kent wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:46 PM, Dobbins, Roland rdobb...@arbor.net wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:41 PM, Glen Kent wrote: Any idea if folks use AH or ESP

RE: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
-Original Message- From: Scott Morris [mailto:s...@emanon.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2009 9:27 AM To: Glen Kent Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: IGMP and PIM protection But IGMP IS the control traffic with users. And PIM IS the control traffic between multicast routers.

Re: FYI, new USG Cybersecurity Coordinator ...

2009-12-23 Thread andrew.wallace
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Christopher Morrow morrowc.li...@gmail.com wrote: (again, this seems really off topic, but) On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 7:33 PM, andrew.wallace andrew.wall...@rocketmail.com wrote: though Gadi is Israeli and Marcus Sachs Pakistani and couldn't be marcus is

Re: FYI, new USG Cybersecurity Coordinator ...

2009-12-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
andrew.wallace wrote: He was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1959 and moved to Tallahassee, Florida with his parents and younger brother in 1961. --Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Sachs Just like many Americans. To me its amazing how deep into U.S Intelligence and The White

Re: FYI, new USG Cybersecurity Coordinator ...

2009-12-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
+BIGINT The real issues are (a) is this billet actually able to originate policy, (b) interpret existing policy, (c) at least find the RNC mail archive, (d) ... Who the hell cares if the billet is filled by a Soviet Mole (tm) if the job is decoration? Eric On 12/23/09 12:42 PM, William

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-23 Thread J.D. Falk
On Dec 22, 2009, at 11:58 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 1:12 AM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Folks should not be so obtuse about these activities. It's almost blatantly in-your-face, so to speak. These

looking for a contact at Orange

2009-12-23 Thread andrew young
if anyone has a contact at Orange or is from Orange, can you contact me off list. need help with some issues originating from the EU. -- Andrew Young Webair Internet Development, Inc. Phone: 1 866 WEBAIR 1 x143 http://www.webair.com Shift hours:

IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Marty Anstey
Greetings, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with IPv6 training courses. A quick search turns up a few results on the subject, but it would be handy to hear if anyone has any firsthand experiences or recommendations. We're based in western Canada but don't mind traveling a bit, but

Re: IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Joel Esler
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 12:00:28PM -0800, Marty Anstey wrote: Greetings, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with IPv6 training courses. A quick search turns up a few results on the subject, but it would be handy to hear if anyone has any firsthand experiences or

Re: IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Owen DeLong
On Dec 23, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Marty Anstey wrote: Greetings, Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with IPv6 training courses. A quick search turns up a few results on the subject, but it would be handy to hear if anyone has any firsthand experiences or recommendations. We're

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett
It's actually available for free on the World-Wide Internet at http://www.morganstanley.com/institutional/techresearch/pdfs/Mobile_Internet_Report_Key_Themes_Final.pdf , but you can purchase a paper copy if you'd rather. It's pretty slow going as it's mostly power points, some with lots and

Re: IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Burwell
On 12/23/2009 13:03, Mike Leber wrote: Marty Anstey wrote: Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with IPv6 training courses. A quick search turns up a few results on the subject, but it would be handy to hear if anyone has any firsthand experiences or recommendations. We're

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Kent
Musing on the idea for a moment, it would surely be 'nice' to somehow know that PIM v2 joins from some other network were, in fact, 'good' or somehow well-formed, rate-limited, and/or somehow 'safe' to accept hold state for. However, it seems as if the OP isn't interested in inter-domain rp

Re: IGMP and PIM protection

2009-12-23 Thread Glen Kent
I think OP meant that he only wants an integrity check of the control traffic, not confidentiality, hence the statement that he does not want to encrypt the control traffic. Yes, thats correct. Kent Stefan Fouant www.shortestpathfirst.net GPG Key ID: 0xB5E3803D

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Jared Mauch
On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency improvements and deployment of more towers, they stress the importance of replacing copper with fiber and microwave

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Howard
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: It must be purchased: Only if you want the dead-tree edition. The others are linked below the text you've quoted. Scott.

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Richard Bennett
Maybe we need to pass some laws that ban copper wire outdoors. On 12/23/2009 4:22 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Dec 23, 2009, at 6:11 PM, Richard Bennett wrote: The authors are pretty well convinced that the demand for more wireless spectrum will be handled by spectral efficiency

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Shrdlu
Mark Pace wrote: Anyone else having problems resolving DNS from UltraDNS? I'm seeing this: $ dig www.ultradns.com @8.8.8.8 Yeah, they went belly up in the last 20 or so. Hard. Looks like it's hitting some of Amazon's Cloud stuff too. It seems west coast related, by the way. -- Oh,

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Mark Pace
Anyone else having problems resolving DNS from UltraDNS? I'm seeing this: $ dig www.ultradns.com @8.8.8.8 Yeah, they went belly up in the last 20 or so. Hard. Looks like it's hitting some of Amazon's Cloud stuff too. It seems west coast related, by the way. On the west coast here.

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Mark Pace
Anyone else having problems resolving DNS from UltraDNS? I'm seeing this: $ dig www.ultradns.com @8.8.8.8 Yeah, they went belly up in the last 20 or so. Hard. Looks like it's hitting some of Amazon's Cloud stuff too. It seems west coast related, by the way. On the west

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread Scott Weeks
--- sc...@doc.net.au wrote: -- From: Scott Howard sc...@doc.net.au On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Scott Weeks sur...@mauigateway.com wrote: It must be purchased: Only if you want the dead-tree edition. The others are linked below the text you've quoted.

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Mark Pace
Clarification: www.ultradns.com is back. There are still other problems afoot, like amazon: $ dig amazon.com @8.8.8.8 ; DiG 9.6.0-P1 amazon.com @8.8.8.8 ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; -HEADER- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 56390 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0,

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread John Sage
Mark Pace wrote: Anyone else having problems resolving DNS from UltraDNS? I'm seeing this: $ dig www.ultradns.com @8.8.8.8 Yeah, they went belly up in the last 20 or so. Hard. Looks like it's hitting some of Amazon's Cloud stuff too. It seems west coast related, by the way.

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Richard A Steenbergen
On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:38:21PM -0800, Shrdlu wrote: I'm still seeing the DNS servers at udns down, hard. Amazon's cloud will need a reboot when this is over. Dang, what the heck happened to all that anycast stuff? We have some DNS providing type customers (not UltraDNS) receiving a few

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Stefan Fouant
There have been several DNS based DDoS observed throughout the day targetting Ultra as well as a few other companies. They were first observed earlier in the morning on the East coast. --Original Message-- From: Richard A Steenbergen To: Shrdlu Cc: Nanog Subject: Re: UltraDNS Failure?

Re: UltraDNS Failure?

2009-12-23 Thread Shrdlu
Richard A Steenbergen wrote: On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 05:38:21PM -0800, Shrdlu wrote: I'm still seeing the DNS servers at udns down, hard. Amazon's cloud will need a reboot when this is over. Dang, what the heck happened to all that anycast stuff? We have some DNS providing type customers

Re: IPv6 Training

2009-12-23 Thread Martin Hannigan
Marty A., Not an endorsement, but Aaron Hughes ahug...@bind.com has been doing training. I mention him because I'm aware that he has a track record, has done some +NOG presos and generally knowledgeable. He's also the only person I'm aware of outside of Europe doing training. Alternatively, I

Re: [NANOG] Roport on internet business

2009-12-23 Thread David Barak
- Original Message From: Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net I know, watching my local incumbent they are not replacing damaged copper with fiber. I think they must have warehouses of it someplace. I can't imagine that it is good to replace buried copper w/copper during the wintertime.

Re: Revisiting the Aviation Safety vs. Networking discussion

2009-12-23 Thread David Hiers
1. I grew up at the local airport watching my CFII pop train an endless stream of pilots. 2. The checklist for my last production gear swap had over 400 steps and 4 time/task gates (each with a rollback plan). As I did each sequence of steps, I called it out, and someone read their copy of the

Re: used hardware

2009-12-23 Thread Martin Hannigan
www.subspacecom.com -- gear ++ Shows up @ NANOG, doesn't spam and clue. Best, -M On 12/18/09, Barrett Lyon bl...@blyon.com wrote: I buy a lot of gear from Peter Giberd at Townsend. I have been working with him for a good 7 years. It's budded into a friendship, good people there. -B